Re: [2.6.23] IBM X41 looses time after Suspend2Disk

["Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>]

On Tuesday, 30 October 2007 09:35, Philipp Matthias Hahn wrote:
> Hello Rafael, Pavel!
> 
> Thank you both for the fast help.
> 
> On Mon, Oct 29, 2007 at 10:05:10PM +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > On Monday, 29 October 2007 21:19, Philipp Matthias Hahn wrote:
> > > I have an IBM X41 tablet pc running 2.6.23 with the following problem:
> > > Suspend2Ram work fine, but when I do a Suspend2Disk (echo disk >
> > > /sys/power/state), the notebook hangs showing the following lines:
> ...
> > >         Suspending console(s)
> > > 
> > > When I repeatedly press some keys or move the TrackPoint, the SwSusp
> > > continues and the notebook powers off.
> > > On reboot, the notebook resumes but hangs showing the following screen:
> ...
> > >         Suspending console(s)
> > > 
> > > Generating interrupts by pressing keys or moving the TrackPoints makes
> > > the resume continue. But after that, the notebook looses time, xterms
> > > don't get updated until I press a key, the beeper beeps until I press a
> > > key, etc.
> ...
> > Please try to do "echo shutdown > /sys/power/disk" before hibernation and
> > see what happens.
> 
> I'm already doing that.

Well, have you tried doing "echo platform > /sys/power/disk" before hibernation
instead?

> > Also, is it an SMP kernel or UP?
> 
> UP.
> 
> 
> On Mon, Oct 29, 2007 at 10:24:14PM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > Yep, I seen that before. Try "nohz=off".
> 
> Okay, that seems to solve the "timer loosing time after resume" problem.
> 
> 
> But I still need to press some keys on suspend (7-12 key presses and
> releases) to unhang it. On resume not key presses are needed any more.
> 
> During on suspend-resume cycle ACPI barfed afer resume spewing messages
> without end (error during execution of methode \...THM, error evaulation
> operand ...) I had to remove the battery and pull the power-plug to
> reboot it.

The ACPI platform firmware got confused, apparently.

Greetings,
Rafael