linux-kernel - Re: Regression: 2.6.23-rc9 okay, 2.6.23.1 resume problems

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Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.0.9999.0710230835100.3167@localhost.localdomain>
Date:	Tue, 23 Oct 2007 08:35:57 +0200 (CEST)
From:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To:	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>
cc:	Mark Lord <lkml@....ca>,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Regression: 2.6.23-rc9 okay, 2.6.23.1 resume problems

On Tue, 23 Oct 2007, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:

> On Monday, 22 October 2007 16:11, Mark Lord wrote:
> > Rafael,
> > 
> > What happens to the jiffies variable on resume from RAM, and from DISK?
> > Do we restore it to the value it had at suspend,
> > or just leave it be with whatever?
> > 
> > The answer has to be "restore the value it had at suspend time",
> > but I figured I'd check here anyway.
> > 
> > ??
> 
> Well, frankly, I've lost track of that recently, but it seems that we just use
> the pre-suspend jiffies (at least in the current -git).
> 
> Thomas knows better, I guess. :-)

We use the pre-suspend value if nothing else fiddled in the variable.

   tglx
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