linux-kernel - Re: [Regression, post-2.6.34] Hibernation broken on machines with radeon/KMS and r300

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Message-ID: <AANLkTimgktYZiepVvbOssbYk7oLAOcWbT5X8uvtifxgC@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Mon, 14 Jun 2010 15:57:07 -0400
From:	Alex Deucher <alexdeucher@...il.com>
To:	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>
Cc:	Dave Airlie <airlied@...hat.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-pm@...ts.linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	dri-devel <dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org>
Subject: Re: [Regression, post-2.6.34] Hibernation broken on machines with 
	radeon/KMS and r300

On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 3:03 PM, Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@...k.pl> wrote:
> On Monday, June 14, 2010, Alex Deucher wrote:
>> On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 10:53 AM, Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@...k.pl> wrote:
>> > Alex, Dave,
>> >
>> > I'm afraid hibernation is broken on all machines using radeon/KMS with r300
>> > after commit ce8f53709bf440100cb9d31b1303291551cf517f
>> > (drm/radeon/kms/pm: rework power management).  At least, I'm able to reproduce
>> > the symptom, which is that the machine hangs hard around the point where an
>> > image is created (probably during the device thaw phase), on two different
>> > boxes with r300 (the output of lspci from one of them is attached for
>> > reference, the other one is HP nx6325).
>> >
>> > Suspend to RAM appears to work fine at least on one of the affected boxes.
>> >
>> > Unfortunately, the commit above changes a lot of code and it's not too easy to
>> > figure out what's wrong with it and I didn't have the time to look more into
>> > details of this failure.  However, it looks like you use .suspend() and
>> > .resume() callbacks as .freeze() and .thaw() which may not be 100% correct
>> > (in fact it looks like the "legacy" PCI suspend/resume is used, which is not
>> > recommended any more).
>> >
>>
>> Does it work any better after Dave's last drm pull request?
>
> Nope.  The symptom is slightly different, though, because now it hangs after
> turning off the screen.
>
>> With the latest changes, pm should not be a factor unless it's explicitly
>> enabled via sysfs.
>
> Well, I guess the first pm patch changed more than just pm, then.

Does this patch help?
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/dri-devel/2010-June/001314.html

Alex
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