From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760856AbXEJUHf (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 May 2007 16:07:35 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755289AbXEJUH0 (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 May 2007 16:07:26 -0400 Received: from ogre.sisk.pl ([217.79.144.158]:56604 "EHLO ogre.sisk.pl" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753569AbXEJUHZ (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 May 2007 16:07:25 -0400 From: "Rafael J. Wysocki" To: Thomas Gleixner , Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [patch 3/3] clockevents: Fix resume logic - updated version Date: Thu, 10 May 2007 22:12:07 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 Cc: Ingo Molnar , LKML , John Stultz , linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org References: <20070430102837.748238000@linutronix.de> <20070510021841.2dff9233.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <1178789261.4646.9.camel@chaos> In-Reply-To: <1178789261.4646.9.camel@chaos> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200705102212.08046.rjw@sisk.pl> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thursday, 10 May 2007 11:27, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > On Thu, 2007-05-10 at 02:18 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > > > If that patch makes the problem go away, then we should have a quite > > > > > good hint what we need to look at. > > > > > > > > No joy, sorry. It still hangs at the last statement in acpi_evaluate_object(). > > > > > > Can you add "nolapic_timer" to the command line please ? > > > > > > > That works. > > Ok, that boils it down to the change, which affects the lapic timer > resume. It does nothing else, than fiddling in some APIC registers, but > I don't see how this affects the ACPI stuff. This smells extremly fishy. Hmm, I wonder if it might be related to the execution of the _GTS ACPI control method in acpi_enter_sleep_state_prep() in violation of the spec. Andrew, could you please try to apply the following change on top of the previous ones and see if the machine still hangs in the same place without "nolapic_timer"? --- drivers/acpi/hardware/hwsleep.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) Index: linux-2.6.21/drivers/acpi/hardware/hwsleep.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.21.orig/drivers/acpi/hardware/hwsleep.c +++ linux-2.6.21/drivers/acpi/hardware/hwsleep.c @@ -200,10 +200,10 @@ acpi_status acpi_enter_sleep_state_prep( return_ACPI_STATUS(status); } - status = acpi_evaluate_object(NULL, METHOD_NAME__GTS, &arg_list, NULL); + /*status = acpi_evaluate_object(NULL, METHOD_NAME__GTS, &arg_list, NULL); if (ACPI_FAILURE(status) && status != AE_NOT_FOUND) { return_ACPI_STATUS(status); - } + }*/ /* Setup the argument to _SST */