linux-kernel - Re: 4.16 regression: s2ram broken on non-PAE i686

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Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.21.1802280959180.1886@nanos.tec.linutronix.de>
Date:   Wed, 28 Feb 2018 09:59:43 +0100 (CET)
From:   Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To:     Woody Suwalski <terraluna977@...il.com>
cc:     Linux Kernel List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        the arch/x86 maintainers <x86@...nel.org>,
        William Grant <william.grant@...onical.com>
Subject: Re: 4.16 regression: s2ram broken on non-PAE i686

Woody,

On Tue, 27 Feb 2018, Woody Suwalski wrote:

> There is a problem with s2ram on 4.16, and it has now been propagated
> to 4.15 and 4.14 stable updates.
> 
> It originates from
> 
> commit 62c00e6122a6b5aa7b1350023967a2d7a12b54c9
> Author: William Grant <william.grant@...onical.com
> <mailto:william.grant@...onical.com>>
> Date:   Tue Jan 30 22:22:55 2018 +1100
> 
>     x86/mm: Fix overlap of i386 CPU_ENTRY_AREA with FIX_BTMAP
> 
> s2ram works OK on PAE kernels, breaks badly on non-PAE. I do not think
> that the problem can be duplicated in VMPlayer, but it is 100%
> reproducible on a "real" hardware.
> System goes to sleep OK, but when woken - it reboots the PC.
> 
> The issue is tracked in Bugzilla bug 198763
> [https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=198763]

Thanks for digging into this so far. Can you please provide dmesg output
from a PAE=y and PAE=n kernel after boot?

Thanks,

	tglx