Re: [linux-pm] Invalid opcode on resume from STR on Asus P4P800-VM

From: Alan Stern
Date: Mon Apr 26 2010 - 15:17:33 EST


On Mon, 26 Apr 2010, Ondrej Zary wrote:

> Hello,
> I'm trying to debug oops on resume from suspend-to-RAM on Asus P4P800-VM
> mainboard. It crashes with invalid opcode (see below). The kernel is
> 2.6.32-trunk from Debian but the same problem is present with vanilla
> kernels - both newer and older (but screen remains blank most of the time,
> only keyboard LEDs blink indicating an oops).
>
> What can cause this problem?
>
> 8.000339 invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP
> 8.003529 last sysfs file: /sys/power/state
> 8.004265 Modules linked in: sco bridge stp bnep l2cacp crc16 bluetooth rfkill loop i2c_i801 snd_intel8x0 snd_ac97_codec shpchp ac97_bus
> parport_pc parport
> rng_core pci_hotplug snd_pcsp snd_pcm snd_timer snd soundcore psmouse snd_page_alloc serio_raw evdev processor ext3 jbd mbcache ide_gd_mod
> ata_generic libata scsi_mod
> ide_pci_generic i915 drm_kms_helper uhci_hcd drm i2c_algo_bit piix i2c_core ehci_hcd intel_agp e100 video ide_core mii floppy agpgart output
> usbcore nls_base button
> thermal fan thermal_sys [last unloaded: scsi_wait_scan]
> [ 148.004265]
> [ 148.004265] Pid: 0, comm: swapper Not tainted (2.6.32-trunk-686 #1) To Be Filled By O.E.M.
> [ 148.004265] EIP: 0060:[<c1008ff3>] EFLAGS: 00010086 CPU: 0
> [ 148.004265] EIP is at mwait_idle+0x4e/0x6c

I had exactly the same problem (on an HP computer with an Intel
chipset). As far as anyone could figure out, it is caused by a bug in
the BIOS. It's not entirely clear that this is the complete answer,
but nothing else turned up. See

http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15385

for the complete record. The best solution I could find was to boot
with "idle=halt" on the command line. You might check to see if any
BIOS updates are available.

Alan Stern

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