Re: AMD64 Swsusp on 2.6.9-rc4-mm1

[William Wolf <wwolf@vt.edu>]

Is this supposedly something new in rc4-mm1?  I have been having the
same problems since around 2.6.8.1, though i havent gone through every
single -mm patch, i have tried at least one in every -rcx candidate, and
they have all done this same thing.

On Sat, 2004-10-16 at 22:52 +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> On Saturday 16 of October 2004 22:47, William Wolf wrote:
> > Hey, Im running 2.6.9-rc4-mm1, and when i run either a echo 4 > 
> > /proc/acpi/sleep or echo disk > /sys/power/state  I get the following 
> > messages:
> > 
> > 
> > Stopping tasks: =================|
> > Freeing memory... done (0 pages freed)
> > PM: Attempting to suspend to disk.
> > PM: snapshotting memory.
> > ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:02.7[C] -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 18
> > Restarting tasks... done
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > It basically just stops everything, then starts it all back up again 
> > immediately.  Any idea whats going on here?  This was done right after 
> > booting and just logging in with no X running.
> 
> IIRC, on 2.6.9-rc4-mm1 swsusp cannot free memory because of some unfinished VM 
> patches that are in there, so it won't work (Andrew, please correct if I'm 
> wrong).
> 
> Greets,
> RJW
>