Re: intermittent suspend problem again

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

On Thursday 19 November 2009, Ferenc Wagner wrote:
> Ferenc Wagner <wferi@niif.hu> writes:
> 
> > Ferenc Wagner <wferi@niif.hu> writes:
> >
> >> "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl> writes:
> >>
> >>> On Wednesday 18 November 2009, Ferenc Wagner wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> Ferenc Wagner <wferi@niif.hu> writes:
> >>>> 
> >>>> Side question: If I run s2disk from the init=/bin/bash prompt, the
> >>>> instrumentation in acpi_enter_sleep_state_prep in drivers/acpi/acpica/hwsleep.c
> >>>> fires before the "Snapshotting system" phase, but it does not fire if I
> >>>> hibernate from the full running desktop.  (That instrumentation was put
> >>>> there to investigate the KMS-triggered STR freeze.)  What could explain
> >>>> this?
> >>>
> >>> It looks like it uses the "shutdown" method when run with init=/bin/bash, but
> >>> I don't know why exactly.
> >>
> >> Thanks for the tip, I'll check this too.
> >
> > While looking into this, I found a reproducible kernel panic:
> >
> > 1. boot with init=/bin/bash
> > 2. mount /usr; swapon -a
> > 3. plug in a USB pendrive
> > 4. s2disk (machine goes to sleep)
> > 5. power on, proceed with resuming, press Enter to cancel resume pause
> > 6. ACPI: Hardware changed while hibernated, cannot resume!
> >    Kernel panic - not syncing: ACPI S4 hardware signature mismatch
> >
> > Does it make sense?
> 
> Yes it does: it's the BIOS USB support playing its childish games.
> I can disable it most of the time, except when booting from USB...
> 
> I wonder if this problem sould be handled more gracefully, now that USB
> persistence is enabled by default.  It works just fine for STR, but
> potentially panics after hibernation.

Add acpi_sleep=s4_nohwsig to the kernel command line.

Thanks,
Rafael