Re: [REGRESSION] rtc/interface.c: kills suspend-to-ram

From: John Stultz
Date: Mon Apr 16 2012 - 16:56:27 EST


On 04/16/2012 08:57 AM, Mark Lord wrote:
On 12-04-16 11:49 AM, richard -rw- weinberger wrote:
On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 5:42 PM, Mark Lord<kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 12-04-16 10:23 AM, richard -rw- weinberger wrote:
On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 3:55 PM, Mark Lord<kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 12-04-16 12:36 AM, Mark Lord wrote:
Something recent has killed suspend-to-ram on a number of machines here.
The symptom is that they suspend, but immediately wake up and panic,
with just a black screen so no visible messages to go by.

The patch below works around the issue -- making things work as they used to work.

+++ linux/drivers/rtc/interface.c 2012-04-16 00:09:14.105387382 -0400
@@ -773,7 +773,7 @@
if (!rtc->ops || !rtc->ops->alarm_irq_enable)
return;

- rtc->ops->alarm_irq_enable(rtc->dev.parent, false);
+ //rtc->ops->alarm_irq_enable(rtc->dev.parent, false); // Kills suspend on ZBOX HD-ID41U
}

How about the line above -- that's the commit that breaks things here.
Download Linus' GIT tree and use git blame. :-)
Too steep a learning curve for a casual user.
But google works:

http://www.mail-archive.com/stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/msg04391.html

Thanks for the report and sorry for the trouble. I'm trying to reproduce this locally. Can you send me your .config?

thanks
-john

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