linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.35.6 fails to suspend (pxa2xx-mci.0)

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Date:	Thu, 07 Oct 2010 17:03:28 +0200
From:	Sven Neumann <s.neumann@...mfeld.com>
To:	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>
Cc:	Daniel Mack <daniel@...aq.de>, Colin Cross <ccross@...roid.com>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>, linux-mmc@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.35.6 fails to suspend (pxa2xx-mci.0)

Hi,

On Thu, 2010-10-07 at 02:18 +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:

> On Thursday, October 07, 2010, Daniel Mack wrote:
> > On Mon, Oct 04, 2010 at 09:30:35AM +0200, Sven Neumann wrote:
> > > we are running an embedded system here based on the PXA300 platform.
> > > Suspend/resume used to work well so far. However after upgrading the
> > > kernel from 2.6.34.7 to 2.6.35.6, we get the following error when trying
> > > to suspend the system:
> > > 
> > > # echo "mem" > "/sys/power/state"
> > > [ 5647.295953] PM: Syncing filesystems ... done.
> > > [ 5647.318792] Freezing user space processes ... (elapsed 0.01 seconds) done.
> > > [ 5647.337048] Freezing remaining freezable tasks ... (elapsed 0.01 seconds) done.
> > > [ 5647.356915] Suspending console(s) (use no_console_suspend to debug)
> > > [ 5647.366651] pm_op(): platform_pm_suspend+0x0/0x5c returns -38
> > > [ 5647.366671] PM: Device pxa2xx-mci.0 failed to suspend: error -38
> > > [ 5647.367082] PM: Some devices failed to suspend
> > 
> > We've bisected this effect down to commit 152e1d5920 ("PM: Prevent
> > waiting forever on asynchronous resume after failing suspend").
> > Suspending our PXA3xx based system breaks with this patch.
> > 
> > I tried to understand what's going wrong, but I didn't follow the
> > discussion about this logic, so I would rather like to pass it back to
> > the originating people.
> > 
> > I can only guess that the problem here is the somewhat tricky handling
> > around mmc_sdio_suspend(), which returns -ENODEV (-38) in case a
> > particular function of a card can not be suspended. The SDIO core would
> > have simply removed the card in this case normally, but the PM core
> > seems to interfere now, stopping the whole suspend procedure.
> > 
> > Can anyone shed some light on this?
> 
> I wonder what happens if you echo 0 to /sys/power/pm_async ?

Nothing happens. The problem persists (tested with 2.6.36-rc7). What
would you expect to happen?


Sven


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