Re: 2.6.10-rc1 broke apmd

[Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>]

Hi!

>  > > Starting with 2.6.10-rc1, date and time on my old APM-based
>  > > laptop is messed up after a resume. Specifically, Emacs and
>  > > xclock both make a huge forward leap and then stop updating
>  > > their current time displays.
>  > > 
>  > > The cause is the "jiffies += sleep_length * HZ;" addition
>  > > to arch/i386/kernel/time.c:time_resume() which is in conflict
>  > > with the hwlock --hctosys that the APM daemon normally does
>  > > at resume.
>  > 
>  > I do not understand why they interfere... time_resume should fix
>  > system time, then userland sets it to the right value, again. Unless
>  > these two happen in paralel (they should not), nothing bad should happen.
>  > 
>  > Can you try to suspend, wait, launch hwclock --hctosys manually?
> 
> I disabled apmd's automatic hwlock --hctosys and ran it manually
> after resume + 5 seconds: no problem. I suspect that apmd runs
> really early at resume and that's why it interferes with time_resume.

You may workaround it be sleep 1 before hwclock --hctosys, I
guess. But debugging it would be even better :-). Do we freeze
processes during apm suspend? If not, we should...
								Pavel
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