Re: Unreliable hibernation on Lenovo x230 (regression)

rhn
2015-04-02T18:19:09Z

On Fri, 3 Apr 2015 01:22:21 +0800
joeyli <jlee@suse.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Apr 03, 2015 at 12:50:54AM +0800, joeyli wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > On Thu, Apr 02, 2015 at 05:28:05PM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > > On Wed 2015-04-01 21:47:43, rhn wrote:
> > > > Hello,
> > > >
> > > > Between kernel 3.16 and 3.17, a regression has been introduced where the first hibernation after regular shutdown always fails to resume. Subsequent hibernations succeed.
> > > >
> > > > The system is a Lenovo x230 with Intel i5, booting with EFI, with the hibernate partition located on a secondary SSD drive. Installed system is Fedora 20, hibernation and reboots were issued using the KDE shutdown dialog.
> > > >
> > > > I have tracked the problem to first appear in the commit
> > > > e67ee10190e69332f929bdd6594a312363321a66 Merge branches 'pm-sleep', 'pm-cpufreq' and 'pm-cpuidle'
> > > >
> > > > The problem itself manifests in dmesg as follows (system was first
> > > > restarted, then hibernated - this log is from the subsequent
> > > resume):
> > >
> > > Ok, can you try to disable cpufreq and cpuidle, and then try if it
> > > reproduces?
> > >
> > > At that point, this is the candidate:
> > >
> > > commit e67ee10190e69332f929bdd6594a312363321a66
> > > Merge: 21c806d 84c91b7 39c8bba 372ba8c
> > > Author: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
> > > Date: Mon Aug 11 23:19:48 2014 +0200
> > >
> > > Merge branches 'pm-sleep', 'pm-cpufreq' and 'pm-cpuidle'
> > >
> > > * pm-sleep:
> > > PM / hibernate: avoid unsafe pages in e820 reserved regions
> > >
> > > ...
> > > Alternatively, you can just try to revert
> > >
> > > commit 84c91b7ae07c62cf6dee7fde3277f4be21331f85
> > > Author: Lee, Chun-Yi <joeyli.kernel@gmail.com>
> > > Date: Mon Aug 4 23:23:21 2014 +0800
> > >
> > > PM / hibernate: avoid unsafe pages in e820 reserved regions
> > >
> > > When the machine doesn't well handle the e820 persistent when
> > > hibernate
> > > resuming, then it may cause page fault when writing image to
> > > snapshot
> > > buffer:
> > >
> > >
> > > ...
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Pavel
> >
> > Before revert 84c91b7ae patch, please check does there have log similar as
> > following in dmesg when hibernate resume fail?
> >
> > [ 24.349777] PM: 0xab9bc000 in e820 nosave region: [mem 0xab9bc000-0xab9c2fff]
> >
> > The address may different, by you should see "e820 nosave region" log. Otherwise
> > we got another problem.
> >
>
> Forgot to mention, please add "debug no_console_suspend=1 loglevel=9" to kernel
> parameter then try to reproduce issue and look at dmesg.
>
>
> Thanks a lot!
> Joey Lee

Yes, it's present in dmesg when hibernate fails (default kernel params):
[ 3.138824] PM: 0x9d3d3000 in e820 nosave region: [mem 0x9d3d3000-0x9d3d3fff]

I probably didn't make it clear - the top dmesg in my original message was from failed resume.

Cheers,
rhn