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SubjectRe: TSC not updating after resume: Bug or Feature?
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On Thu, 2008-12-18 at 23:19 +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> On Thursday, 18 of December 2008, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> >
> > * Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> wrote:
> >
> > > Rafael, would something like this explain why we had to revert Shaggy's
> > > patch?
>
> Well, I have yet to understand what the suspend-resume of the timekeeping code
> actually does.
>
> The original description sounds worrisome to me, it looks like we've overlooked
> something at least.
>
> > > His patch fixes the backward motion filter and I'm at an utter
> > > loss why that would break suspend.
> >
> > yes, i'd love to have this commit reinstated:
> >
> > 5b7dba4: sched_clock: prevent scd->clock from moving backwards
> >
> > and the bug triggered by hibernation fixed instead.
>
> Shaggy said he had an idea of what was wrong, so I expect an updated version
> of the patch to appear.

Not really. I said I'd look at it, but all I know is that it looks like
something clock-related isn't initialized correctly after resume. I
don't know enough to have any idea how to fix it.

> Thanks,
> Rafael
--
David Kleikamp
IBM Linux Technology Center



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