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From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Jordan Crouse <jordan.crouse@amd.com>
Cc: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	william.morrow@amd.com
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH] ACPI:  Correctly recover from a failed S3 attempt
Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2006 15:48:06 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060817154805.GA6450@ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060808200434.GJ14539@cosmic.amd.com>

Hi!

> We have a poorly behaving BIOS that simply returns from its suspend
> procedure, rather then jumping to the restart routine indicated by
> the FACS.  This appears to Linux as a failed S3 attempt.
> 
> This would normally succeed, but the sysenter msrs are not
> restored and the restart fails.  It is not clear if this is the only
> omission, but if the sysenter msrs are manually entered in the debugger, 
> the OS resumes.
> 
> The attached patch would invoke the register restore function on failure.
> This has absolutely no effect on correct systems, and, "does the right thing"
> for failed or stupid BIOSes, at least as far as I am concerned.

Can we get fixed bios, too?

What machines are affected?

> --- a/arch/i386/kernel/acpi/wakeup.S
> +++ b/arch/i386/kernel/acpi/wakeup.S
> @@ -292,7 +292,10 @@ ENTRY(do_suspend_lowlevel)
>  	pushl	$3
>  	call	acpi_enter_sleep_state
>  	addl	$4, %esp
> -	ret
> +
> +#	In case of S3 failure, we'll emerge here.  Jump
> +# 	to ret_point to recover
> +	jmp	ret_point
>  	.p2align 4,,7

%esp manipulation is now unneccessary?

Can we somehow propagate the error condition?

Why jmp when ret_point is next instruction?

>  ret_point:
>  	call	restore_registers


-- 
Thanks for all the (sleeping) penguins.

      reply	other threads:[~2006-08-17 15:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-08-08 20:04 [RFC/PATCH] ACPI: Correctly recover from a failed S3 attempt Jordan Crouse
2006-08-17 15:48 ` Pavel Machek [this message]

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