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SubjectRe: I need some serious help to debug suspend to ram problem
Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> On Saturday, 20 of September 2008, Maxim Levitsky wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I hit a dead end when trying to understand
>> why my notebook can't resume from suspend to ram
>> if this is done two times a row.
>>
>> Single suspend/resume cycle works almost perfectly
>> (beep that goes through the sound card is muted...
>> no morse code for me... :-(
>>
>> )
>>
>> I compiled a minimal kernel (absolutely nothing but disk drivers, all experimental option like nohz
>> turned off)
>>
>> But I had to turn SMP, since without it system won't resume first time I suspend it.
>> (How could this affect suspend?)
>
> It could if the system is 64-bit. In which case please have a look at
> http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11237
>
>> With SMP and minimal kernel (of course no closed drivers), I get same behavior,
>> first resume works second hangs.
>>
>> I then added some debug code to real mode wakeup code, I put there in first
>> place instructions, that will save some magic value to rtc (to alarm
>> registers that I know are preserved during boot cycle), and I discovered
>> sad thing that first time bios does pass control to linux, but second time
>> (when it hangs), it doesn't.
>>
>>
>> I tried to update bios, and I got same results.
>>
>> Of course it does work with that @#$%^& OS
>
> So we're doing something wrong. Please try the appended patch.
>
>> I then proceeded to test recently posted low memory corruption patch, and
>> it did show that that @#$%^& BIOS does corrupt low memory
>> I then reserved all low memory, but system began to hand after first suspend,
>> in exactly same way, but as expected I soon discovered, that that forces real
>> mode page to be above 1M, ok, then I reserved almost all low memory except
>> 100K window in the middle, so low allocations will work, but be placed in
>> region bios less likely to corrupt, and still that didn't help, still same hang.
>>

More information, I compiled kernels back to 2.6.19, and they all have exactly the same issue.


Any ideas?

Best regards,
Maxim Levitsky


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