resume regression in 2.6.37

[s.neumann@raumfeld.com (Sven Neumann)]

On Mon, 2011-01-17 at 13:40 +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Mon, 17 Jan 2011, Sven Neumann wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, 2011-01-13 at 18:33 +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > 
> > > > Without the revert there is absolutely no sign of resume. With the
> > > > change reverted I can see that the PXA powers up again, there's an LED
> > > > showing that the USB controller has power again. Unfortunately there's
> > > > seems to be another problem and the resume doesn't complete. I've tried
> > > > to get console output by using no_console_suspend, but there's just
> > > > gibberish on the console after resume :(
> > > > 
> > > > Any idea on how to proceed from here? I could perhaps ask our hardware
> > > > engineer to try find out where exactly we are stuck in the resume. But
> > > > I'd like to avoid that if possible.
> > > 
> > > Can you stick a printk into the set_wake() function of that irq chip
> > > and print the irq and on arguments and the return value . Run that
> > > with both stock 2.6.37 and the patch reverted.
> > 
> > pxa3xx_set_wake(31, 1) returns 0
> > 
> > Same result with stock 2.6.37 and the patch reverted. Except that
> > without the patch reverted, the device doesn't power up again.
> 
> Ok, can we agree that the patch has no functional impact on the
> set_wake function? And I don't see a reason why reverting that patch
> results in a working resume. That does not make sense at all. Which
> compiler version are you using ?

I agree that this is all very weird and as far as I understand the patch
it should have no functional impact. Unfortunately reverting the patch
does not result in a working resume, but at least it makes a difference
and at the moment it's the only trace I have.

My cross-compile tool-chain uses GCC 4.3.5.


Sven