Re: Tips on debugging suspend/resume failure

[Chris Ball <cjb@laptop.org>]

Hi,

   > But the question remains, how to get debug out? Is there a dmesg
   > buffer that can persist if DRAM is being refreshed perhaps?

The most promising attempts involve using GPU RAM to store dmesg,
since it persists across a soft reboot and isn't going to be
overwritten as long as you get to it before the video driver does
after the crash.  (Which you can ensure by blacklisting the driver.)

   > Is there another way to skin this mongrel, I mean cat? 

The most basic tool is probably CONFIG_PM_TRACE, which uses the
real-time clock to store a signature for the last driver to init
during suspend/resume -- after the crash, the kernel will interpret
the RTC hash it placed to give you a hint as to what might be failing.

The real answer, though, is to just keep trying to find any way at all
to get usable serial output, including by finding a different machine
with the same problem that has a serial port.

- Chris.
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