linux-kernel - Re: Suspend to RAM regression in 2.6.28-rc2 (bisected)

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Date:	Mon, 27 Oct 2008 20:11:18 +0100
From:	"Carlos R. Mafra" <crmafra2@...il.com>
To:	Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
Cc:	Soeren Sonnenburg <kernel@....de>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	tomas.winkler@...el.com,
	"John W. Linville" <linville@...driver.com>,
	linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Suspend to RAM regression in 2.6.28-rc2 (bisected)

On Mon 27.Oct'08 at 20:03:15 +0100, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-10-27 at 20:00 +0100, Carlos R. Mafra wrote:
> > On Mon 27.Oct'08 at 19:44:42 +0100, Johannes Berg wrote:
> > > On Mon, 2008-10-27 at 19:31 +0100, Johannes Berg wrote:
> > > > On Mon, 2008-10-27 at 19:07 +0100, Soeren Sonnenburg wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > > > Johannes, can you pls have a look?
> > > > 
> > > > I did, and I have no idea. Makes no sense at all.
> > > 
> > > The only thing I can remotely think of is that iwlwifi doesn't like
> > > being called back from within the call that it did to mac80211, which
> > > obviously happens here. But I have no idea, the code as it stands is
> > > correct, just the interaction with iwlwifi's resume seems to be broken.
> > > 
> > > Try this patch instead:
> > 
> > Yep, with this patch it also works!
> 
> > > --- everything.orig/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-agn.c	2008-10-27 19:44:12.000000000 +0100
> > > +++ everything/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-agn.c	2008-10-27 19:44:15.000000000 +0100
> > > @@ -2084,7 +2084,6 @@ static void iwl_alive_start(struct iwl_p
> > >  		iwl4965_error_recovery(priv);
> > >  
> > >  	iwl_power_update_mode(priv, 1);
> > > -	ieee80211_notify_mac(priv->hw, IEEE80211_NOTIFY_RE_ASSOC);
> 
> alright, well, if nothing else turns up soon then we should probably put
> this patch in rather than reverting the other one, imho mac80211 is
> doing the right thing there and the driver is calling into it at a point
> where either mac80211 or the driver cannot handle it.
> 
> Do you get any kernel messages output? If you do, could you put messages
> into each line of ieee80211_set_disassoc to see where it hangs?

No messages appear, just a black screen.

But I can use the SysRq keys, and when I umount the
screen shows the message that umount succeed. I also tried SysRq+t but
the messages appear to fast to read.


> 
> johannes


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