linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] intel_idle: Don't use on Lenovo Ideapad S10-3t

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Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.20.1610280021410.4913@nanos>
Date:   Fri, 28 Oct 2016 00:22:28 +0200 (CEST)
From:   Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To:     Ville Syrjälä <ville.syrjala@...ux.intel.com>
cc:     Len Brown <len.brown@...el.com>, feng.tang@...el.com,
        Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
        Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@...utronix.de>,
        Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>,
        "Srivatsa S. Bhat" <srivatsa@....edu>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...ux.intel.com>,
        Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>,
        Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>, Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Paul McKenney <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Paul Turner <pjt@...gle.com>,
        "Zhang, Rui" <rui.zhang@...el.com>,
        "Rafael J . Wysocki" <rafael.j.wysocki@...el.com>,
        linux-pm@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-arch@...r.kernel.org, linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] intel_idle: Don't use on Lenovo Ideapad S10-3t

On Thu, 27 Oct 2016, ville.syrjala@...ux.intel.com wrote:

> From: Ville Syrjälä <ville.syrjala@...ux.intel.com>
> 
> Lenovo Ideapad S10-3t hangs coming out of S3 with intel_idle.
> The two workaround that seem to help are "intel_idle.max_cstate=0"
> or "nohz=off highres=off".
> 
> At a first glance quirk_tigerpoint_bm_sts() seemed promising, but
> even when moved to early_resume it didn't do anything.
> 
> I have no idea what's wrong here, so let's just disable intel_idle
> for these machines using a DMI match.
> 
> I sent this patch originally about one year ago, at which time I was
> asked to file a bug, which I did [1], which was mostly a waste of time
> since no one actually did anything to fix the problem. In the
> meantime even acpi-idle got broken and then fixed again [2], so at
> least there's still a working alternative. As intel_idle has never
> worked on this machine, and it looks like no one has any real
> intention to fix it, I'm going to suggest *again* that we simply
> disable intel_idle on this machine and get on with life.

Please put that patch on hold. We have some new data on this.

Thanks,

	tglx