Re: 2.6.10-mm2: swsusp regression [update]

[Rafael J. Wysocki]

On Wednesday, 12 of January 2005 22:01, Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> > [-- snip --]
> > > > > > The regression is caused by the timer driver.  Obviously, turning 
> > > > > > timer_resume() in arch/x86_64/kernel/time.c into a NOOP makes it 
go
> > > > > > away. 
> > [-- snip --]
> > > > > 
> > > > > ..you might want to look at i386 time code, they have common
> > > > > ancestor, and i386 one seems to work.
> > 
> > Well, I've changed timer_resume() in arch/x86_64/kernel/time.c into the 
> > following function:
> 
> Ugh, looking at arch/i386/kernel/time.c... "This could have never
> worked".
> 
> It does something like get_cmos_time() - get_cmos_time()*HZ. It looks
> seriously wrong.
> 
> > (for example - the second number is always negative and huge).  Would it 
mean 
> > that get_cmos_time() needs fixing?
> 
> get_cmos_time() looks okay, but timer){suspend,resume} looks
> hopelessly broken.

Well, why don't we convert them to noops, then, at least temporarily?

RJW

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