Re: Linux v2.6.18-rc3

Jesse Brandeburg
2006-08-02T19:57:08Z

On 8/1/06, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> wrote:
> On Tue, 1 Aug 2006 21:31:22 -0700
> "Jesse Brandeburg" <jesse.brandeburg@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On 7/31/06, Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> wrote:
> > > On Mon, 31 Jul 2006, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > >
> > > > core_initcall() would suit. That's actually a bit late for this sort of
> > > > thing, but we can always add a new section later if it becomes a problem.
> > > > I'd suggest that we ensure that srcu_notifier_chain_register() performs a
> > > > reliable BUG() if it gets called too early.
> > >
> > > Here's a patch to test. I can't try it out on my machine because
> > > 2.6.18-rc2-mm1 (even without the patch) crashes partway through a
> > > suspend-to-disk, in a way that's extremely hard to debug. Some sort of
> > > spinlock-related bug occurs within ioapic_write_entry.
> >
> > can't test because I also can't suspend or hibernate with rc2-mm1
> > (resume causes hard hang with the backlight and screen off) The issue
> > i reported was against linus' 2.6.18-rc3 kernel.
> >
>
> This might help?
>
>
> author Jiri Slaby <ku@bellona.localdomain> Tue, 01 Aug 2006 01:16:13 +0159
>
> --- a/arch/i386/kernel/io_apic.c
> +++ b/arch/i386/kernel/io_apic.c
> @@ -2360,6 +2360,7 @@ static int ioapic_resume(struct sys_devi
> reg_00.bits.ID = mp_ioapics[dev->id].mpc_apicid;
> io_apic_write(dev->id, 0, reg_00.raw);
> }
> + spin_unlock_irqrestore(&ioapic_lock, flags);
> for (i = 0; i < nr_ioapic_registers[dev->id]; i ++)
> ioapic_write_entry(dev->id, i, entry[i]);
>
> -
>
>

after applying this patch from jiri as well as the patch from alan, I
can now suspend and resume, and the patch from alan seems to work too,
but I have no idea if it executed.

BTW, I get junk out the serial port with the first bits of printk (and
during resume from S3 too) but then something manages to init the
serial port to the right speed and text starts coming out correctly.