Re: Linux 2.6.12-rc3: various swsusp problems

Pavel Machek
2005-04-21T18:58:32Z

Hi!

> there's some problems with swsusp in 2.6.12-rc3 (x86_64):

Are they new or were they in -rc2, too?

> 1. Is it necessary to print the following message during regular boot?
> swsusp: Suspend partition has wrong signature?
> It is a bit annoying and I believe it will confuse some swsusp
> users.

Hmm, feel free to provide a patch. (I need something to try git on :-).

> 2. PCMCIA related hangs during swsusp.
> swsusp hangs after freeing memory when either cardmgr is running
> or pcmcia cards are *physically* inserted. It is insufficient
> to do a 'cardctl eject' the cards must be removed, too, for
> swsusp not to hang. I do suspect some problem with the
> 'pccardd' kernel threads.

Did it work with any older kernel? Which driver is it? yenta?

> 3. Sometimes during the search for the suspend hang reason the system
> went during suspend into a lightshow of:
> eth0: Too much work at interrupt!
> and some line that ends in:
> release_console_sem+0x13d/0x1c0)
> The start of the line is not readable as it just flickers by in
> the eth0 message limbo. NIC is a built in RTL-8169 Gigabit Ethernet
> (rev 10). Oh, no chance for a serial console capture as there's no
> built in serial device in this laptop.

How repeatable is that? Will NIC work okay if you rmmod/insmod its driver?
Pavel
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64 bytes from 195.113.31.123: icmp_seq=28 ttl=51 time=448769.1 ms