linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 11/20] x86_64: wakeup.S misc cleanups

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Message-ID: <20070308042544.GC6000@in.ibm.com>
Date:	Thu, 8 Mar 2007 09:55:44 +0530
From:	Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@...ibm.com>
To:	Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
Cc:	linux kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Reloc Kernel List <fastboot@...ts.osdl.org>,
	ebiederm@...ssion.com, akpm@...ux-foundation.org, ak@...e.de,
	hpa@...or.com, magnus.damm@...il.com, lwang@...hat.com,
	dzickus@...hat.com, rjw@...k.pl
Subject: Re: [PATCH 11/20] x86_64: wakeup.S misc cleanups

On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 11:40:53PM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> > o Various cleanups. One of the main purpose of cleanups is that make
> >   wakeup.S as close as possible to trampoline.S.
> > 
> > o Following are the changes
> > 	- Indentations for comments.
> > 	- Changed the gdt table to compact form and to resemble the
> > 	  one in trampoline.S
> > 	- Take the jump to 32bit from real mode using ljmpl. Makes code
> > 	  more readable.
> > 	- After enabling long mode, directly take a long jump for 64bit
> > 	  mode. No need to take an extra jump to "reach_comaptibility_mode"
> > 	- Stack is not used after real mode. So don't load stack in
> >  	  32 bit mode.
> > 	- No need to enable PGE here.
> > 	- No need to do extra EFER read, anyway we trash the read contents.
> > 	- No need to enable system call (EFER_SCE). Anyway it will be 
> > 	  enabled when original EFER is restored.
> > 	- No need to set MP, ET, NE, WP, AM bits in cr0. Very soon we will
> >   	  reload the original cr0 while restroing the processor state.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@...ibm.com>
> 
> ACK, provided it was tested.
> 									Pavel

Hi Pavel,

Thanks. I tested all the S3 related changes during my last posting. That
time I had access to an x86_64 box which supported ACPI state S3. Since then
this code has not changed and it has been running successfully in RHEL5 
kernels. Now I don't have access to an x86_64 machine which supports S3
so I can't test suspend to RAM. But I am sure that these patches are working
as nothing has changed since last posting.

Just now Nigel reported successful suspend to RAM results for 2.6.20. I
have requested him to test it for 2.6.21-rc2 also, if possible.

I have throughly tested suspend to disk (S4) and it works fine.

Thanks
Vivek
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