Re: [bisected][bug] commit e978aa7d7d57d04eb5f88 breaks suspend on laptop.

["Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>]

On Saturday, November 12, 2011, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Saturday, November 12, 2011, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > If that's "acpi_idle", the appended patch should help (it works for
> > me at least).
> 
> Hi Rafael,
> 
> I currently have limited email connectivity but I happened to bisect the
> same bug and your patch fixes it for me. I am certainly on acpi_idle
> with my thinkpad w500.

Yes, I'm quite sure everyone on acpi_idle is affected by this bug.

> Sorry for breaking the email threading and dropping people from Cc.

No problem.

> > From: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
> > Subject: ACPI / cpuidle: Remove acpi_idle_suspend (to fix suspend regression)
> > After commit e978aa7d7d57d04eb5f88a7507c4fb98577def77 (cpuidle: Move
> > dev->last_residency update to driver enter routine; remove
> > dev->last_state) setting acpi_idle_suspend to 1 by
> > acpi_processor_suspend() causes the ACPI cpuidle routines to return
> > error codes continuously, which in turn causes cpuidle to lock up
> > (hard).  However, acpi_idle_suspend doesn't appear to be useful for
> > any purpose (it's racy and doesn't really provide any real
> > protection), so it can be removed, which makes the problem go away.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
> 
> Tested-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>

Thanks for the info.  Unfortunately, I've already resent the patch without
your Tested-by: tag, but it can still be added when the patch is committed.

Rafael