Re: swsusp does not stop DMA properly during resume

From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt
Date: Tue Jan 20 2004 - 18:44:41 EST



> I _think_ what this patch is doing is suspending all devices from within
> the boot kernel before starting into the resumed kernel. Is this correct?
>
> > + update_screen(fg_console); /* Hmm, is this the problem? */
>
> Cryptic comment. To what "problem" does this refer?

Note that you should make sure all calls to update_screen (among others)
are guarded by the console semaphore, with my VT patch, not doing so
will result in WARN_ON's

Ben.


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