Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] Fwd: [Suspend-devel] resume not working on acer ferrari 4005 with radeonfb enabled

From: Rafael J. Wysocki
Date: Wed Nov 15 2006 - 05:12:24 EST


On Wednesday, 15 November 2006 02:48, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-11-15 at 01:54 +0100, Christian Hoffmann wrote:
> > On Tuesday 14 November 2006 23:07, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> > > > I tried that patch, but the last message I see over netconsole (using
> > > > tg3) is: Suspending console(s)
> > > > and then nothing. Nothing on resume at all :(
> > > >
> > > > Adding some printks in the radeonfb_pci_suspend and radeonfb_pci_resume
> > > > (radeon_pm.c) didn't help: I don't see them. But I am not a kernel
> > > > programmer at all, so I might do something wrong or in the wrong place.
> > >
> > > Does it resume if you make radeon_pci_resume() a nop ?
> > >
> > > Of course, the fbdev will not come back, but will the machine overall
> > > resume ?
> > >
> > > Ben.
> > Yes, if i make radeon_pci_resume a nop, the machine resumes if i do a return 0
> > immediately.
> > I think I tracked it down to the call to acquire_console_sem() as the
> > following code makes the machine hang again:
> >
> > int radeonfb_pci_resume(struct pci_dev *pdev)
> > {
> > struct fb_info *info = pci_get_drvdata(pdev);
> > struct radeonfb_info *rinfo = info->par;
> > int rc = 0;
> > if (pdev->dev.power.power_state.event == PM_EVENT_ON)
> > return 0;
> > if (rinfo->no_schedule) {
> > /* if (try_acquire_console_sem())*/
> > return 0;
> > } else
> > acquire_console_sem();
> >
> > return 0;
> > ...
>
> Well, if you acquire the console sem you need to release it too :-)

Or the console semaphore is acquired too many times.

Christian, could you please add release_console_sem() before 'return 0'
and see if that makes the code work again? If not, could you add a printk()
in kernel/printk.c/acquire_console_sem() to see how many times it is called?

Greetings,
Rafael


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