Re: 2.6.27-rc6: nohz + s2ram = need to press keys to get progress

From: Thomas Gleixner
Date: Fri Sep 12 2008 - 15:16:20 EST


On Fri, 12 Sep 2008, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:

> On Friday, 12 of September 2008, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> > The old "you have to press keys to get machine to progress" seems to
> > be back :-(. Thinkpad x60.
>
> I guess the last bunch of HPET/clockevents patches caused that to happen.

Guessing is hardly a good method to get down to the root cause of
those problems.

> We seem to be doing a "one step forward, one step back" thing here ...

Well, the fixes for HPET/clockevents fix real bugs and there are no
evident side effects vs. s2ram inside. quite the contrary.

Thanks,

tglx
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/