linux-kernel - Re: [3/6] 2.6.21-rc4: known regressions

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Date:	Mon, 26 Mar 2007 18:26:47 +0200
From:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To:	Jeff Chua <jeff.chua.linux@...il.com>
Cc:	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...sta.de>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>, pavel@...e.cz,
	linux-pm@...ts.osdl.org, gregkh@...e.de,
	linux-pci@...ey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz,
	Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@...cle.com>,
	Len Brown <lenb@...nel.org>, linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org,
	jgarzik@...ox.com, linux-ide@...r.kernel.org,
	"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...lanox.co.il>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Subject: Re: [3/6] 2.6.21-rc4: known regressions

On Mon, 2007-03-26 at 13:37 +0800, Jeff Chua wrote:
> On 3/26/07, Adrian Bunk <bunk@...sta.de> wrote:
> 
> > > Resume from RAM (s2ram) still broke (tried with or without
> > > CONFIG_NO_HZ). Suspend to RAM seems ok, but upon resume, the screen
> > > will only display "inu" and only after pressing the power button will
> > > the system return to console. But "date" still doesn't advance.
> >
> > This might be related to the following regression:
> >
> > Subject    : first disk access after resume takes several minutes
> >              ('date' does not advance after resume from RAM, CONFIG_NO_HZ=n)
> > References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/3/8/117
> >              http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/3/25/20
> > Submitter  : Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@...lanox.co.il>
> > Handled-By : Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
> >              Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
> > Status     : problem is being debugged
> 
> Adrian,
> 
> It's related. I tested without CONFIG_HPET_TIMER, and now my X60 can
> suspend and resume from RAM (s2ram). Even better, it works
> with/without CONFIG_NO_HZ.

Does the patch below fix the HPET_TIMER=y case ?

	tglx

diff --git a/arch/i386/kernel/hpet.c b/arch/i386/kernel/hpet.c
index f3ab61e..76afea6 100644
--- a/arch/i386/kernel/hpet.c
+++ b/arch/i386/kernel/hpet.c
@@ -197,7 +197,7 @@ static int hpet_next_event(unsigned long delta,
 	cnt += delta;
 	hpet_writel(cnt, HPET_T0_CMP);
 
-	return ((long)(hpet_readl(HPET_COUNTER) - cnt ) > 0);
+	return ((long)(hpet_readl(HPET_COUNTER) - cnt ) > 0) ? -ETIME : 0;
 }
 
 /*



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