Re: [linux-pm] intermittent suspend problem again

From: Rafael J. Wysocki
Date: Sat Nov 28 2009 - 19:29:32 EST


On Saturday 28 November 2009, Ferenc Wagner wrote:
> "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@xxxxxxx> writes:
>
> > On Wednesday 18 November 2009, Ferenc Wagner wrote:
> >
> >> Ferenc Wagner <wferi@xxxxxxx> writes:
> >>
> >>> Since I've instrumented s2disk and the hibernation path, no freeze
> >>> happened during hibernating the machine.
> >>
> >> Not until I removed the delays from hibernation_platform_enter(), which
> >> were put there previously to get step-by-step feedback. Removing them
> >> again resulted in a freeze in short course, maybe just two hibernations
> >> later. The instrumentation shows it stuck in dpm_suspend_start(PMSG_HIBERNATE).
> >> Does it mean that some device driver is at fault?
> >
> > A driver or one of the platform hooks.
> >
> >> I'll check if it always fails at the same point (although tracing into
> >> dpm_suspend_start isn't pure fun because of the multitude of devices it
> >> loops over). Is there any way to get printk output from that phase?
> >
> > Compile with CONFIG_PM_VERBOSE (it does mean exactly that).
>
> The last message now was:
>
> e100: 0000:02:08.0: hibernate, may wakeup
>
> Looks like hibernating the e100 driver is unstable.

Can you verify that by trying to hibernate without the e100 driver?

Rafael
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