Re: [2.6.17-rc5-mm2] crash when doing second suspend: BUG in arch/i386/kernel/nmi.c:174

["Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>]

Hi,

On Saturday 03 June 2006 00:51, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> I'm trying to get suspend/resume working properly on my Thinkpad X60.
> This is a dual-core machine, so its running in SMP mode.
> 
> Now that I have a set of patches to make AHCI resume properly, I'm
> getting a crash on the second suspend.  I can't get an actual listing of
> the oops, but I have a set of screenshots if anyone needs more details.
> 
> The gist is that there's a BUG_ON failing at arch/i386/kernel/nmi.c:174
> (BUG_ON(counter > NMI_MAX_COUNTER_BITS)), in release_evntsel_nmi.  The
> backtrace is:
> 
>      release_evntsel_nmi
>      stop_apci_nmi_watchdog
>      on_each_cpu
>      disable_lapic_nmi_watchdog
>      lapic_nmi_suspend
>      sysdev_suspend
>      device_power_down
>      suspend_enter
>      enter_state
>      state_store
>      subsys_attr_store
>      sysfs_write_file
>      vfs_write
>      sys_write
>      sysenter_past_esp
> 
> This happens after all the devices have suspended themselves; then
> there's a longish pause (several seconds), and the oops appears.  The
> first suspend is very quick.
> 
> Everything works as expected when I disable nmi watchdog with
> nmi_watchdog=0 on the kernel command line.
> 
> dmesg after a single successful suspend/resume cycle attached.
> (resent without .config to get under linux-kernel's size limit; mail if 
> you want a copy)

Well, this looks like a tough one.  Could you please create a bugzilla entry
with all of the relevant information?

Greetings,
Rafael