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Message-ID: <20080422130013.GB5621@ucw.cz>
Date:	Tue, 22 Apr 2008 15:00:14 +0200
From:	Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
To:	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>
Cc:	Mikulas Patocka <mikulas@...ax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: APM lockups since 2.6.25



On Thu 2008-04-17 02:14:25, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> On Wednesday, 16 of April 2008, Mikulas Patocka wrote:
> > > So it didn't help, I just got this (2.6.25-rc8):
> > > 
> > > (I have turned lockdep on few days ago, and it seems to try to release a 
> > > lock that's not held ... and then reacquire that lock again and deadlock)
> > 
> > BTW. the first one message happened immediatelly after APM resume, the 
> > second message 2 minutes later.
> > 
> > APMD didn't set time after resume, it's completely locked up.
> 
> Well, unfortunately, APM uses the generic code for suspending and resuming
> devices, but it doesn't use the freezing of tasks, so it's not very reliable in
> its present form.

In theory, BIOS is reponsible for saving/restoring device state in APM
case... maybe we could just remove those calls?

If that works for mikulas, that already handles 50% of people using
apm ;-).

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