Re: 2.6.11-rc3-mm1: softlockup and suspend/resume

From: Pavel Machek
Date: Sat Feb 05 2005 - 15:05:30 EST


Hi!

> > > It looks like softlockup is not happy with suspend/resume:
> >
> > Does it happen while writing out state to disk?
>
> No, it occurs during resume, right after the image has been restored (sorry,
> I should have said this before).
>
> > I've attached a patch for touch_softlockup_watchdog() below - but i think
> > what we really need is another mechanism. I'm wondering what the primary
> > reason for the lockup-detection is - did swsuspend stop the the softlockup
> > threads?
>
> If my understanding is correct, the time between suspend (ie the creation of
> the image) and resume (ie the resotration of the image) is considered as spent
> in the kernel, so it triggers softlockup as soon as its threads are woken up (is
> that correct, Pavel?).

I do not know how exactly softlockup works, but yes, that seems
reasonable.
Pavel
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