linux-kernel - Re: Jinxed VAIO wreckage - current state of affairs

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Date:	Sat, 16 Jun 2007 08:47:33 +0200
From:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@...cle.com>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Len Brown <lenb@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: Jinxed VAIO wreckage - current state of affairs

On Fri, 2007-06-15 at 23:31 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > 
> > http://www.tglx.de/projects/hrtimers/2.6.22-rc4/patch-2.6.22-rc4-hrt10.patch
> > 
> 
> That suspends and resumes OK.
> 
> What was the bug?

A stupid state check, which prevented the PIT to be setup again. So the
box got stuck waiting for a timer to expire.

Still I can not explain, why this resulted in this strange "disappear in
the return instruction" behavior.

	tglx


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