Re: Possible regression? 2.6.26-rc1: T61s failure after suspend/resume

["Glauber Costa" <glommer@gmail.com>]

On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 1:21 PM, Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 9 May 2008, Glauber Costa wrote:
>  >
>  > I can't reproduce it neither, and looking at the code over and over
>  > again, see no obvious point for the breakage. I'll try to reproduce it
>  > myself,
>  > to see if I can spot something. But correct me if I'm wrong, this is
>  > all 64-bit machines, right?
>  >
>  > I'm stuck with mostly 32-bit hardware, but will give it a try anyway.
>
>  The machine is 64-bit capable (Core2 Duo), but the kernels I'm running
>  for this are 32-bit, so I doubt that the 64-bitability is relevant.
>  I'd love to see what happens with a 64-bit kernel, but I never get
>  back from suspend with it (and that's not a recent regression).
>  Carlos is also seeing this with a 32-bit kernel (on P4 Xeon with HT).
>
>  Please don't take my git bisection result too seriously: that's where
>  it led when I fudged things around enough, and treated blank screens
>  as manifestations of the problem, which very likely they're not
>  (there's some other bug which makes it very variable how quickly
>  I resume).  And also, I wasn't checking how many cpus came up each
>  time: I wouldn't be surprised if at some points in your series only
>  one would come up, which would then look like a "good" point to me.
>
This is very unlikely. Exactly because I knew problems were likely to
arise in such a delicate thing, I was
extremely careful to make it not an issue. But yeah, ultimately, it can happen.


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