Re: Possible regression? 2.6.26-rc1: X61s failure after suspend/resume

Theodore Tso
2008-05-12T11:35:29Z

On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 10:03:01PM -0400, Theodore Tso wrote:
> On Fri, May 09, 2008 at 11:49:41AM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> >
> > on the off chance that this might be related: could you try to boot with
> > nopat?
>
> I did some more testing, and on my X61s laptop, using a somewhat more
> recent snapshot (v2.6.26-rc1-434-g9662369 from Linus's tree Sunday
> morning), I was able to reproduce the failure after a suspend/resume
> without nopat, but after adding nopat, the problem seems to have gone
> away.

Actually, it looks like I spoke too quickly. I'll do some more
testing, but it looks like either (a) I got lucky, or (b) it's a lot
harder to trigger with nopat. In any case, after getting home and
docking my workstation, I started a kernel build, and approximately 15
minutes later, the X server hung with the same symptoms as before.

- Ted