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@ 2007-09-22 22:29 Thomas Gleixner
  2007-09-22 22:29 ` [patch 1/2] ACPI: disable lower idle C-states across suspend/resume Thomas Gleixner
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From: Thomas Gleixner @ 2007-09-22 22:29 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Andrew Morton
  Cc: LKML, Linus Torvalds, Ingo Molnar, Len Brown, Venkatesh Pallipadi,
	Rafael J. Wysocki

Sorry, it took me quite a while to realize the real root cause of the
VAIO - and probably many other machines - suspend/resume regressions,
which were unearthed by the dyntick / clockevents patches.

We disable a lot of ACPI/BIOS functionality during suspend, but we
keep the lower idle C-states functionality active across
suspend/resume. It seems that this causes trouble with certain BIOSes,
but I assume that the problem is more wide spread and just not
surfacing due to the various scenarios in which a machine goes into
suspend/resume. I spent some quality time to figure out a set of debug
mechanisms, which did not influence the problem. So it is quite likely
that a lot of machines might be affected by this, but due to the
configuration, interrupt scenarios, .... the problem just does
not show up. 

My final enlightment was, when I removed the ACPI processor module,
which controls the lower idle C-states, right before resume; this
worked fine all the time even without all the workaround hacks.

I really hope that this two patches finally set an end to the "jinxed
VAIO heisenbug series", which started when we removed the periodic
tick with the clockevents/dyntick patches.

Venki, can you please add the analogous fix to the cpuidle patch set ?

Thanks,

	tglx
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2007-09-22 22:29 [patch 0/2] suspend/resume regression fixes Thomas Gleixner
2007-09-22 22:29 ` [patch 1/2] ACPI: disable lower idle C-states across suspend/resume Thomas Gleixner
2007-10-01 10:11   ` Andi Kleen
2007-09-22 22:29 ` [patch 2/2] clockevents: remove the suspend/resume workaround^Wthinko Thomas Gleixner
2007-09-22 22:59 ` [patch 0/2] suspend/resume regression fixes Linus Torvalds
2007-09-22 23:30   ` Thomas Gleixner
2007-09-23  1:20   ` Oleg Verych
2007-09-23  3:11     ` Linus Torvalds
2007-09-23  5:24       ` Mihai Donțu
2007-09-23 12:30         ` Alan Cox
2007-09-23 13:00           ` Mihai Donțu
2007-09-23 14:06       ` Matthew Garrett
2007-09-23 10:29   ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2007-09-28 20:27   ` Mark Lord
2007-09-28 20:33     ` Thomas Gleixner
2007-09-28 21:17       ` Mark Lord
2007-09-28 21:40         ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2007-09-28 21:04     ` Alan Cox
2007-09-29 17:12     ` Bill Davidsen

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