Re: 2.6.38.2 breaks suspend to disk

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Fri Apr 01 2011 - 17:31:07 EST


On 04/01/2011 02:24 PM, Yinghai Lu wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 1:21 PM, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On 04/01/2011 12:54 PM, Yinghai Lu wrote:
>>>
>>> ok, please check if you are happy with this one.
>>>
>>
>> The best would simply be:
>>
>> mmu_cr4_features = read_cr4_safe();
>>
>> If this has to run before we can handle exceptions, one can verify the
>> existence by testing for the CPUID instruction (a CPU has CR4 if and
>> only if it has CPUID):
>>
>> if (boot_cpu_data.cpuid_level >= 0)
>> mmu_cr4_features = read_cr4_safe();
>>
>> ... since we set cpuid_level to -1 if there is no CPUID instruction.
>
> in that case could use read_cr4 directly.
>
> please check attached -v4
>

Err, yes, that's what I meant.

Now, why the heck did you introduce a bunch of CONFIG_HIBERNATION #ifdefs?

-hpa

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