linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.24-rc8-mm1: broken suspend (due to git-cpufreq.patch)

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Message-ID: <20080118171036.GB29889@redhat.com>
Date:	Fri, 18 Jan 2008 12:10:36 -0500
From:	Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>
To:	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.24-rc8-mm1: broken suspend (due to git-cpufreq.patch)

On Fri, Jan 18, 2008 at 02:34:59PM +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
 > On Thursday, 17 of January 2008, Andrew Morton wrote:
 > > 
 > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.24-rc8/2.6.24-rc8-mm1/
 > > 
 > > - selinux is busted on one of my two selinux-enabled test machines.
 > > 
 > > - suspend-to-ram and suspend-to-disk are totally hosed on one of my test
 > >   machines.  I guess I get to bisect this.
 > 
 > Suspend and hibernation are also broken on my HP nx6325, which is caused by
 > git-cpufreq.patch.  Reverting this patch and
 > drivers-cpufreq-add-calls-to-cpufreq_cpu_put.patch makes things work again.
 > 
 > I reported this already for 2.6.24-rc6-mm1 and Dave said he would look at it
 > in January.  It's still January, so hopefully he's still going to do that. ;-)

Given that laptop has a K8 CPU, it's highly likely that it's this patch..
http://userweb.kernel.org/~davej/pn.diff
Can you revert just that on top of -mm, (or just try this standalone on top of -rc8)
and confirm this is problematic ?

The rest of the stuff in cpufreq.git looks benign at first look.

	Dave

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