Re: 2.6.11-rc4-mm1: something is wrong with swsusp powerdown

[Jindrich Makovicka]

Andrew Morton wrote:
> (Please do reply-to-all)
>
> Jindrich Makovicka <makovick@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Pavel Machek wrote:
> >
> > > Hi!
> > >
> > > In `subj` kernel, machine no longer powers down at the end of
> > > swsusp. 2.6.11-rc5-pavel works ok, as does 2.6.11-bk.
> >
> > For me, power down stopped working since the introduction of softlockup 
> > detection. After disabling CONFIG_DETECT_SOFTLOCKUP, powerdown works fine.
>
>
> Could you send the output which CONFIG_DETECT_SOFTLOCKUP generates?
>
> I had one CONFIG_DETECT_SOFTLOCKUP failure with suspend, on SMP.  The
> machine was stuck somewhere under mce_work_fn().  Perhaps in the
> smp_call_function().  It only happened the once.

Strange enough, softlockup produces no additional output. Kernel just 
prints "acpi_power_off called" and freezes. Without softlockup detection 
compiled in it turns off normally.

First I was under impression that this is caused by 
acpi_power_off-bug-fix.patch mentioned above, but unfortunately removing 
it didn't actually solve the problem. Later I found I missed that 
softlockup detection sneaked in turned on by default, and disabling it 
made power off work again.

Power down via APM produced some softlockup output, but I am not sure if 
APM actually worked on my machine before - I just tried APM if it works 
when ACPI doesn't, and didn't bother taking a snapshot. I can recompile 
an APM kernel with softlockup enabled and disabled and test it, if it 
could help.

--
Jindrich Makovicka

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