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Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> writes: > Hi! > >> If you've looked at this bug you will know that myself at and atleast >> one other person experience a reboot on resume at a specific line in >> the wakeup code: >> http://bugme.osdl.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3586 >> >> One note about the code in the bug, my code for detecting PM is >> backwards, so ignore it, what I say in this email is still valid. >> >> Specifically, if I get rid of the pushl;popl then the computer does >> not reboot. See the attached diff. The question is 1) is this >> pushl;popl the final nail in the coffin? 2) Does windows not clear the >> flags completely, but instead sets them to some "special value"? >> >> The reason for (1) is because as I understand it, when a certain >> number of illegal operations (3 iirc) are issued at certain times >> (real mode iirc) the machine automatically reboots. That could be >> what we are seeing here. > > You got this wrong. It is three illegal instructions but > *nested*. Like error, error in fault handler, error in doublefault > handler. Ah. Yeah, this isn't an area I know much about :) Thanks for the correction. > Try replacing flags manipulation with any stack manipulation to see > what is wrong. Do you mean try something like this? Replace the push 0 with push 0x1234 ; push 0x1234 ; pop ; pop and try to figure out which line causes the reboot? > Like perhaps processor docs? Is that what I want to look at? I was the one asking the question. ;) Thanks, Jason - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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