Re: [Regression] 2.6.24-git3: Major annoyance duringsuspend/hibernation on x86-64 (bisected)

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Fri Feb 01 2008 - 12:11:22 EST



* Dmitry Adamushko <dmitry.adamushko@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On 01/02/2008, Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > ---
> > - restore the old wakeup mechanism
>
> and how does it change behavior, logically-wise?
>
> do we somehow miss a 'wake-up' from kthread_stop() so that its caller
> gets blocked until watchdog's msleep_interruptible(10000) timeouts? On
> average, it would take +-5 sec. and might explain the first
> observation of Ravael -- "...adds a 5 - 10 sec delay..." (although,
> lately he reported up to +30 sec. delays).
>
> (/me goint to also try reproducing it later today)

thanks - i cannot reproduce it on my usual suspend/resume testbox
because e1000 broke on it, and this is a pretty annoying regression.
We'll have to undo the hung-tasks detection feature if it's not fixed
quickly. (there's no point in debugging features that _add_ bugs)

Ingo
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