Re: Suspend to RAM generates oops and general protection fault

[Nigel Cunningham <nigel@nigel.suspend2.net>]

Hi.

On Mon, 2007-01-22 at 16:16 +1100, Jean-Marc Valin wrote:
> >> I just encountered the following oops and general protection fault
> >> trying to suspend/resume my laptop. I've got a Dell D820 laptop with a 2
> >> GHz Core 2 Duo CPU. It usually suspends/resumes fine but not always. The
> >> relevant errors are below but the full dmesg log is at
> >> http://people.xiph.org/~jm/suspend_resume_oops.txt and my config is in
> >> http://people.xiph.org/~jm/config-2.6.20-rc5.txt
> ...
> > It looks like something is stomping on memory it shouldn't be touching,
> > so I would suggest testing multiple cycles with a minimal (preferably
> > zero) number of modules loaded. If that looks good and reliable, add
> > modules & processes until you can say 'If I do X, it breaks.'. If having
> > a minimal number of modules loaded doesn't help, I would then suggest
> > reviewing your kernel config to see if other things can be built as
> > modules and the same logic applied. You can be reasonably sure that it
> > will be a device driver. Common causes of suspend/resume problems from
> > the list you give below are acpi modules, bluetooth and usb. I'd also be
> > consider pcmcia, drm and fuse possibilities. But again, go for unloading
> > everything possible in the first instance.
> 
> Actually, the reason I sent this is that when I showed the oops/gpf to
> Matthew Garrett at linux.conf.au, he said it looked like a CPU hotplug
> problem and suggested I send it to lkml. BTW, with 2.6.20-rc5, the
> suspend to RAM now works ~95% of the time.

I agree that the second is cpu hotplug, but the first is something else,
hence my recommendations above.

Regards,

Nigel