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

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Message-Id: <1181976813.8176.365.camel@chaos>
Date:	Sat, 16 Jun 2007 08:53:33 +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 Sat, 2007-06-16 at 08:47 +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> 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.

I put up a fixed patch series against rc4-mm to:

http://www.tglx.de/projects/hrtimers/2.6.22-rc4-mm2/patch-2.6.22-rc4-mm2-hrt3.patches.tar.bz2

	tglx


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