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    SubjectRe: [PATCH] clockevents: Fix suspend/resume to disk hangs
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    On Tue, 2007-03-20 at 10:35 +0100, Marcus Better wrote:
    > Thomas Gleixner wrote:
    >
    > > I finally found a dual core box, which survives suspend/resume without
    > > crashing in the middle of nowhere. Sigh, I never figured out from the
    > > code and the bug reports what's going on.
    > >
    > > The observed hangs are caused by a stale state transition of the clock
    > > event devices, which keeps the RCU synchronization away from completion,
    > > when the non boot CPU is brought back up.
    >
    > This didn't fix the suspend problems on my Thinkpad R60. (Sorry for
    > nagging - please let me know if I can assist in debugging this...)

    I did not expect that it fixes your problem. clockevents are only used
    in arch/i386 right now. You are running a 64 bit kernel, so a change of
    your problem would have been very surprising.

    You said, that the breakage came between 2.6.20 and rc2. Can you bisect
    it ?

    tglx


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