Re: Crash when suspending Lenovo T510 laptop (2.6.39.3)

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

On Friday, August 05, 2011, Jesper Juhl wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I just experienced a kernel crash when trying to suspend my Lenovo 
> Thinkpad T510 (model 4384-GJG) laptop.
> 
> Normally I just shut the lid and the little moon icon lights up telling me 
> that the laptop has suspended. This time was different; the moon icon 
> didn't light up as it usually does, so I opened the lid again and found a 
> kernel crash dump on the screen. The machine was completely dead at this 
> point, so all I could do was take a photo of the screen - nothing had made 
> it to the log files either (checked after a reboot).
> 
> The image I took of the screen with the crash info is available here:
>  http://personal.chaosbits.net/suspend-crash.jpg
> 
> The kernel version is 2.6.39.3
> The kernel config is attached as '2.6.39.3-config.gz'
> The distribution is Arch Linux 64bit.
> 
> Here is a partial transcript of the image (typed in manually, so check the 
> image if you suspect an error - I also left out function addresses/offsets 
> and other details before/after the backtrace to save me some typing, so 
> check the image for the full details) :
> 
> Call Trace:
>   ? wq_worker_sleeping
>   schedule
>   ? cfq_put_queue
>   ? cic_free_func
>   ? kmem_cache_free
>   ? put_io_context
>   do_exit
>   oops_end
>   die
>   do_trap
>   do_invalid_op
>   ? free_msi_irqs
>   ? find_busiest_group
>   ? pci_conf1_write
>   pci_disable_msi
>   e1000e_reset_interrupt_capabillity
>   __e1000_runtime_suspend
>   ? __switch_to
>   pci_pm_runtime_suspend
>   ? pci_legacy_suspend_late
>   rpm_callback
>   ? schedule
>   rpm_suspend
>   ? linkwatch_do_dev
>   ? pm_schedule_suspend
>   pm_runtime_work
>   process_one_work
>   worker_thread
>   ? manage_workers.isra.29
>   kthread
>   kernel_thread_helper
>   ? kthread_worker
>   ? gs_change
> 
> I've not experienced this before with this kernel, nor with earlier or 
> newer ones, so it's not exactely reproducible on demand, so it's anyones 
> guess when this was introduced (or if it's been there for ages, just 
> triggers rarely)...
> 
> One detail that may be relevant; normally when I suspend the laptop I do 
> so before unplugging any cables or suspend after not having anything 
> plugged in for ages (or at all). This time I was in a hurry, so I quickly 
> unplugged the power, 3 usb cables and the ethernet cable and then quickly 
> slammed the lid shut. Not sure if that has an impact on triggering this 
> though. I tried reproducing that scenario 4-5 times, but the laptop 
> suspended fine when I did that.
> 
> If you require further information then please let me know and I'll be 
> happy to provide it. 
> 
> I'll of course try to submit more details if it happens again, but if 
> someone has a good guess as to how to provoke it or an idea for a fix I'd 
> sure like to know.

I don't know how to fix it yet, but I think I know what the problem is.
Namely, a runtime suspend of the Ethernet adapter as occured in parallel with
the system-wide suspend and they clashed.  The runtime suspend has probably
been provoked by detaching the Ethernet cable from the box.

Thanks,
Rafael