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SubjectRe: 2.6.19: ACPI reports AC not present after resume from STD
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On Sunday, 25 February 2007 18:14, Andrey Borzenkov wrote:
> On Воскресенье 25 февраля 2007, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > On Sunday, 25 February 2007 11:37, Andrey Borzenkov wrote:
> > > On Воскресенье 25 февраля 2007, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > > > On Sunday, 25 February 2007 00:26, Andrey Borzenkov wrote:
> > > > > On Суббота 24 февраля 2007, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > > > > > Hi,
> > > > > >
> > > > > > On Saturday, 24 February 2007 10:55, Andrey Borzenkov wrote:
> > > > > > > On Вторник 13 февраля 2007, Andrey Borzenkov wrote:
> > > > > > > > On Четверг 07 декабря 2006, Lebedev, Vladimir P wrote:
> > > > > > > > > Please register new bug, attach acpidump and dmesg.
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7995
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > regards
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > Well, this starts looking like ACPI is not at fault.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > When reporting AC state ACPI just reads contents of system memory
> > > > > > > (I presume it gets updated by BIOS/ACPI when AC state changes).
> > > > > > > It looks like this memory area is restored during resume from
> > > > > > > STD. I updated mentioned bug report with more detailed
> > > > > > > description. Now if someone could suggest a way to catch if
> > > > > > > specific physical address gets saved/restored this would finally
> > > > > > > explain it.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > First, if you want the reserved memory areas to be left alone by
> > > > > > swsusp, you need to mark them as 'nosave'. On x86_64 this is done
> > > > > > by the function e820_mark_nosave_range() in
> > > > > > arch/x86_64/kernel/e820.c that can be ported to i386 with no
> > > > > > problems. However, we haven't found that very useful, so far,
> > > > > > since no one has ever reported any problems with the current
> > > > > > approach, which is to save and restore them.
> > > > >
> > > > > Well, the following proof of concept patch fixes this issue for me.
> > > > > Please notice that original version of e820_mark_nosave_range() could
> > > > > fail to exclude some areas due to alignment issues (exactly what
> > > > > happened to me on first try) so it still can explain your problem
> > > > > too.
> > > >
> > > > Great job, thanks for the patch! It looks good, so I'm going to
> > > > forward it for merging.
> > >
> > > Please no; I'm currently testing slightly more polished version; I will
> > > send it later.
> >
> > OK
> >
> > > Could anybody explain (or give pointer to) what happens which region that
> > > is not page-aligned? In particular, the very first one:
> > >
> > > BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable)
> > > BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
> > >
> > > Will the kernel allocate partial page (how?) or will the kernel ignore
> > > last (first) incomplete page? In the former case how those incomplete
> > > pages can be detected?
> >
> > Well, on x86_64, if I understand e820_register_active_regions() correctly,
> > the partial pages won't be registered.
> >
>
> It appears that for low memory kernel will ignore incomplete pages for sure. I
> hope it does the same for high memory - but for now I just throw this in and
> pray :) This also significantly simplifies patch.

Well, can you please check if the appended modification of your patch still
works?

Thanks,
Rafael


---
arch/i386/kernel/e820.c | 47 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
arch/i386/kernel/setup.c | 1 +
include/asm-i386/e820.h | 1 +
3 files changed, 49 insertions(+)

Index: linux-2.6.21-rc2/arch/i386/kernel/e820.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.21-rc2.orig/arch/i386/kernel/e820.c
+++ linux-2.6.21-rc2/arch/i386/kernel/e820.c
@@ -313,6 +313,53 @@ static int __init request_standard_resou

subsys_initcall(request_standard_resources);

+/*
+ * Mark pages corresponding to given pfn range as 'nosave'.
+ */
+static void __init
+e820_mark_nosave_range(unsigned long start_pfn, unsigned long end_pfn)
+{
+ unsigned long pfn;
+
+ if (start_pfn >= end_pfn)
+ return;
+
+ printk("Nosave address range: %016Lx - %016Lx\n",
+ PFN_PHYS(start_pfn), PFN_PHYS(end_pfn));
+ for (pfn = start_pfn; pfn < end_pfn; pfn++)
+ if (pfn_valid(pfn))
+ SetPageNosave(pfn_to_page(pfn));
+}
+
+/*
+ * Find the ranges of physical addresses that do not correspond to
+ * e820 RAM areas and mark the corresponding pages as nosave for software
+ * suspend and suspend to RAM.
+ *
+ * This function requires the e820 map to be sorted and without any
+ * overlapping entries and assumes the first e820 area to be RAM.
+ */
+void __init e820_mark_nosave_regions(void)
+{
+ int i;
+ unsigned long pfn;
+
+ pfn = PFN_DOWN(e820.map[0].addr + e820.map[0].size);
+ for (i = 1; i < e820.nr_map; i++) {
+ struct e820entry *ei = &e820.map[i];
+
+ if (pfn < PFN_UP(ei->addr))
+ e820_mark_nosave_range(pfn, PFN_UP(ei->addr));
+
+ pfn = PFN_DOWN(ei->addr + ei->size);
+ if (ei->type != E820_RAM)
+ e820_mark_nosave_range(PFN_UP(ei->addr), pfn);
+
+ if (pfn >= max_low_pfn)
+ break;
+ }
+}
+
void __init add_memory_region(unsigned long long start,
unsigned long long size, int type)
{
Index: linux-2.6.21-rc2/arch/i386/kernel/setup.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.21-rc2.orig/arch/i386/kernel/setup.c
+++ linux-2.6.21-rc2/arch/i386/kernel/setup.c
@@ -648,6 +648,7 @@ void __init setup_arch(char **cmdline_p)
#endif

e820_register_memory();
+ e820_mark_nosave_regions();

#ifdef CONFIG_VT
#if defined(CONFIG_VGA_CONSOLE)
Index: linux-2.6.21-rc2/include/asm-i386/e820.h
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.21-rc2.orig/include/asm-i386/e820.h
+++ linux-2.6.21-rc2/include/asm-i386/e820.h
@@ -43,6 +43,7 @@ extern void register_bootmem_low_pages(u
extern void e820_register_memory(void);
extern void limit_regions(unsigned long long size);
extern void print_memory_map(char *who);
+extern void e820_mark_nosave_regions(void);

#endif/*!__ASSEMBLY__*/

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