device_suspend() calls ACPI suspend functions, which seems to have undesired side effects on lower idle C-states. It took me some time to realize that especially the VAIO BIOSes (both Andrews jinxed UP and my elfstruck SMP one) show this effect. I'm quite sure that other bug reports against suspend/resume about turning the system into a brick have the same root cause. After fishing in the dark for quite some time, I realized that removing the ACPI processor module before suspend (this removes the lower C-state functionality) made the problem disappear. Interestingly enough the propability of having a bricked box is influenced by various factors (interrupts, size of the ram image, ...). Even adding a bunch of printks in the wrong places made the problem go away. The previous periodic tick implementation simply pampered over the problem, which explains why the dyntick / clockevents changes made this more prominent. We avoid complex functionality during the boot process and we have to do the same during suspend/resume. It is a similar scenario and equaly fragile. Add suspend / resume functions to the ACPI processor code and disable the lower idle C-states across suspend/resume. Fall back to the default idle implementation (halt) instead. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Tested-by: Andrew Morton Cc: Len Brown Cc: Venkatesh Pallipadi Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki --- drivers/acpi/processor_core.c | 2 ++ drivers/acpi/processor_idle.c | 19 ++++++++++++++++++- include/acpi/processor.h | 2 ++ 3 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) Index: linux-2.6/drivers/acpi/processor_core.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.orig/drivers/acpi/processor_core.c 2007-09-23 00:01:00.000000000 +0200 +++ linux-2.6/drivers/acpi/processor_core.c 2007-09-23 00:01:00.000000000 +0200 @@ -102,6 +102,8 @@ static struct acpi_driver acpi_processor .add = acpi_processor_add, .remove = acpi_processor_remove, .start = acpi_processor_start, + .suspend = acpi_processor_suspend, + .resume = acpi_processor_resume, }, }; Index: linux-2.6/drivers/acpi/processor_idle.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.orig/drivers/acpi/processor_idle.c 2007-09-23 00:01:00.000000000 +0200 +++ linux-2.6/drivers/acpi/processor_idle.c 2007-09-23 00:01:00.000000000 +0200 @@ -325,6 +325,23 @@ static void acpi_state_timer_broadcast(s #endif +/* + * Suspend / resume control + */ +static int acpi_idle_suspend; + +int acpi_processor_suspend(struct acpi_device * device, pm_message_t state) +{ + acpi_idle_suspend = 1; + return 0; +} + +int acpi_processor_resume(struct acpi_device * device) +{ + acpi_idle_suspend = 0; + return 0; +} + static void acpi_processor_idle(void) { struct acpi_processor *pr = NULL; @@ -355,7 +372,7 @@ static void acpi_processor_idle(void) } cx = pr->power.state; - if (!cx) { + if (!cx || acpi_idle_suspend) { if (pm_idle_save) pm_idle_save(); else Index: linux-2.6/include/acpi/processor.h =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.orig/include/acpi/processor.h 2007-09-23 00:01:00.000000000 +0200 +++ linux-2.6/include/acpi/processor.h 2007-09-23 00:01:00.000000000 +0200 @@ -320,6 +320,8 @@ int acpi_processor_power_init(struct acp int acpi_processor_cst_has_changed(struct acpi_processor *pr); int acpi_processor_power_exit(struct acpi_processor *pr, struct acpi_device *device); +int acpi_processor_suspend(struct acpi_device * device, pm_message_t state); +int acpi_processor_resume(struct acpi_device * device); /* in processor_thermal.c */ int acpi_processor_get_limit_info(struct acpi_processor *pr); -- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/