memory corruption after suspend - ultrabook not able to turn onafter failed suspend, EHCI workaround - Asus Zenbook UX31E

From: Oleksij Rempel (fishor)
Date: Thu Mar 08 2012 - 13:54:46 EST


Hallo all,

Alan Stern suggested me to ask on this lists. The problems seems to be complicated. https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42728

So now to the problem.

Symptoms are fallowing, after initiating suspend this laptop freezes. After forcing after poweroff, it is really hard to power on this laptop. linux kernel gets oops, windows will get BSOD.

I tried /sys/power/pm_test and i got fallowing result. Setting pm_test=devices do not make any problems. With pm_test=processors the test runs ok, but after power off i get same result as with filed suspend.

Steps to reproduce:
- echo 0 > pm_async
- echo processors > pm_test
- echo mem > state
(here the display will go off, usb mouse powered off too, after one second it returns back to console .... no freezes)
- poweroff
- after power on, start memtest .... here i will get lots of bad memory blocks.

the processor is Intel Core i7-2677M. According to the specification it has build in memory controller. I assume the controller is some how misconfigured at suspend, this is why i get bad blocks with memtest86+. It looks like the laptop stay in this broken supend mode even after poweroff. To bring it back to normal i need to completely poweroff it, it mean unplug battery and powersupply.
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