Re: Regression from 2.6.26: Hibernation (possibly suspend) broken on Toshiba R500 (bisected)

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

On Thursday, 4 of December 2008, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 4 Dec 2008, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > 
> > Well, in principle it may be related to the way we handle bridges during
> > resume
> 
> Ahh. Yes, that's possible. It's quite possible that the problem isn't 
> resource allocation per se, but just the bigger complexity at resume time.
> 
> This is a hibernate-only issue for you, right? Or is it about regular 
> suspend-to-ram too?

It is suspend to RAM too, from what I can tell.

> > but I really need to read some docs and compare them with the code 
> > before I can say anything more about that.  Surely, nothing like this 
> > issue has ever been reported before.
> 
> Well, how stable has hibernate been on that particular machine 
> historically?
> 
> Because the half-revert alignment patch (ie reverting part of 5f17cf) that 
> made it work for you would actually have been a non-issue in the original 
> code that was pre-PCI-resource-alignment cleanup (commit 88452565).
> 
> So the patch you partially reverted was literally the one that made the 
> Cardbus allocation work the _same_ way as it did historically, before 
> 88452565. So if the new code breaks for you, then so should the "old" code 
> (ie 2.6.25 and earlier).
> 
> So the "hasn't been reported before" case may well be just another way of 
> saying "hibernate has never been very reliable".

This is a new box and the kernels earlier than 2.6.27-rc3 have not been tested
on it.  So, in fact, it's quite possible that hibernation would fail on it with
earlier kernels as well.

Thanks,
Rafael