Re: Dell Inspiron 5558/0VNM2T and suspend/resume problem with r8169

[Diego Viola]

On Wed, Mar 1, 2017 at 12:47 PM, Diego Viola <diego.viola@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 1, 2017 at 12:44 PM, Diego Viola <diego.viola@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> My machine (a Dell Inspiron 5558 laptop) fails to resume from suspend
>> unless I rmmod r8169 first.
>>
>> Another workaround is to do this before suspend:
>>
>> echo 0 > /sys/power/pm_async
>>
>> I've been reproducing the freeze like this:
>>
>> $ i3lock && systemctl suspend
>>
>> I would have to repeat this at least 5 times for the freeze to occur,
>> but it seems to be easily reproducible.
>>
>> If I don't invoke i3lock, I cannot get the freeze to happen, but it
>> seems to happen with other lockers also.
>>
>> I have tried Alt+SysRq+r and tried to switch to another TTY but the
>> machine is always unresponsive, which indicates that it's a kernel
>> panic.
>>
>> I have had a similar issue to this about a year ago with the jme
>> driver and this was the fix:
>>
>> https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/drivers/net/ethernet/jme.c?id=ee50c130c82175eaa0820c96b6d3763928af2241
>>
>> I haven't tried getting a kernel trace yet, but all seems to indicate
>> the problem is caused by r8169, at least til now.
>>
>> Any ideas, please?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Diego
>
> Sorry, I forgot to mention, I'm on Arch Linux (x86_64), kernel 4.9.11-1-ARCH.
>
> Diego

This is still a problem with Linux 4.10.1.

Diego