linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.29: can't resume from suspend with DMAR (intel iommu) enabled

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Message-Id: <1238004601.2085.57.camel@macbook.infradead.org>
Date:	Wed, 25 Mar 2009 18:10:01 +0000
From:	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Cc:	Andrew Lutomirski <amluto@...il.com>,
	Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@...tuousgeek.org>,
	Kyle McMartin <kyle@...hat.com>,
	Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@...el.com>,
	Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@...el.com>,
	Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>,
	Mark Gross <mgross@...ux.intel.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: 2.6.29: can't resume from suspend with DMAR (intel iommu)
 enabled

On Wed, 2009-03-25 at 19:07 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org> wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 2009-03-25 at 18:59 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > > 
> > > that's not easy - i use it right now :)
> > > 
> > > That's another reason why warnings and non-panic() behavior are 
> > > better for developers too. Had it not crashed i could have sent you 
> > > my dmesg and i would not have turned off DMAR in the BIOS.
> > > 
> > > Now it's turned off in my BIOS (first barrier) and i need to reboot 
> > > the kernel (second barrier) and i need to hack up a kernel in a 
> > > certain way to produce debug info (third barrier) - in the merge 
> > > window (fourth barrier ;-).
> > 
> > Yeah, trusting BIOS monkeys for this was always going to be a bad 
> > plan. We should have just known how to set/read the damn hardware 
> > BARs -- the most likely explanation for this is that your BIOS is 
> > just lying to you about where it put the registers, I believe.
> > 
> > I'd like to put in a basic sanity check when we first ioremap the 
> > (alleged) DMAR registers. Hopefully, the output I asked for will 
> > confirm that there's a simple way to do that...
> 
> Could you please fix the panic() and add the debug output you'd like 
> to see? That would give me a kernel to run straight away. Without me 
> having to think much about what i should run and when.

That's distinctly non-trivial. I need to bail out early.

> (unless you really need this pr_debug info to proceed)
> 
> But it will be some time really. The laptop has 8 days uptime and is 
> not set up to run custom kernels at all.

Anyone else got a similar machine?

-- 
dwmw2

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