Re: [2.6.36-rc2 regression] X201s: resume-from-S2R hangs

From: Eric Anholt
Date: Tue Sep 07 2010 - 13:13:00 EST


On Mon, 6 Sep 2010 02:05:36 -0700, Andy Isaacson <adi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I have a Thinkpad X201s on which suspend-to-RAM was quite reliable until
> after 2.6.36-rc1; with problematic kernels, suspend seems to work OK
> (the machine goes to sleep with the moon LED steadily lit) but on resume
> the LCD never lights up (and it's not just the backlight, the screen
> isn't drawing at all) and the keyboard and network are dead. Nothing
> makes it to syslog, either. The moon LED is turned off though.
>
> There seems to be some timing component to the problem -- some problem
> kernels will suspend reliably 25% or 50% of the time and hang the rest.
> There also seems to be some per-reboot state involved; one problem
> kernel suspended successfully and survived 25 suspends in a row without
> triggering a failure. (But after a reboot, the first suspend hung...)
> Other problem kernels fail on 4 out of 4 reboots.
>
> Bisecting is pretty hard under these conditions, but it seems to point
> to

Weird. That's exactly the hardware that I tested RC6 on, and I haven't
seen a single resume failure on mine. Sounds like time to revert for
this release.

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