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SubjectRe: [Regression] 2.6.24-git3: Major annoyance during suspend/hibernation on x86-64 (bisected)
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On Monday, 28 of January 2008, Dmitry Adamushko wrote:
> On 28/01/2008, Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> wrote:
> > On Sunday, 27 of January 2008, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > >
> > > * Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > 2.6.24-git3 adds a 5 - 10 sec delay to the suspend and hibernation
> > > > code paths (probably related to the disabling of nonboot CPUs), which
> > > > is !@#$%^&*() annoying.
> > > >
> > > > It's 100% reproducible on my HP nx6325 and bisection idendified the
> > > > following commit as the first bad one:
> > > >
> > > > commit 764a9d6fe4b52995c8aba277e3634385699354f4
> > > > Author: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
> > > > Date: Fri Jan 25 21:08:04 2008 +0100
> > > >
> > > > sched: track highest prio task queued
> > >
> > > hm, this patch is a NOP, so it's weird that it has an effect.
> > >
> > > Do you have serial logging enabled perhaps? If the following WARN_ON()
> > > triggers:
> > >
> > > + WARN_ON(p->prio < rq->rt.highest_prio);
> > >
> > > then perhaps that can cause a 5-10 seconds delay. (that's how much time
> > > it takes to printk a warning on the slowest serial settings)
> > >
> > > but if you use suspend, then any such printks would be preserved in the
> > > dmesg, right? If the WARN_ON() triggers, and if you remove it, do things
> > > get faster?
> >
> > No, this isn't the WARN_ON().
> >
> > > this does have the feel of being scheduling related, but are you
> > > absolutely sure about the precise identity of the patch?
> >
> > Actually, not quite. That's why I have verified it and found that another
> > patch is really responsible for the issue, namely:
> >
> > commit 82a1fcb90287052aabfa235e7ffc693ea003fe69
> > Author: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
> > Date: Fri Jan 25 21:08:02 2008 +0100
> >
> > softlockup: automatically detect hung TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE tasks
> >
> > Reverting this commit (it reverts with some minor modifications) fixes the
> > problem for me.
>
> What if you use the same kernel that triggers a problem and just disable
> this new 'softlockup' functionality:
>
> echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs
>
> does the problem disapear?

I haven't checked that yet, will do it later today.

Thanks,
Rafael


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