Re: Debugging Thinkpad T430s occasional suspend failure.

From: Dave Jones
Date: Tue Feb 12 2013 - 21:17:51 EST


On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 04:26:22PM -0800, Hugh Dickins wrote:

> Me too on T420s, except that is blessed with a blinking CapsLk.
>
> It's so erratic (though I think I see more failures than you do: I'd say
> a quick resume never fails, but an overnight resume fails half the time):
> I'm afraid I didn't have the patience to embark on pm_trace at all.
>
> I did try to bisect it during the -rc5 week. I'm not sure, but I have
> no record of seeing it on -rc1 or -rc2, but definitely saw it on -rc3.
> So I tried bisecting between -rc2 and -rc3, persisting for a day if it
> looked good; but the bisection didn't seem to be converging anywhere
> likely when -rc6 came out, and I switched to see if -rc6 solved it.
>
> I had no problem with -rc6; but with -rc7 it happens more than ever.
> Though still not on "quick" resumes, the kind you want to do when
> bisecting.
>
> Sharing these anecdotes in case they match or diverge from your
> experience and others, and might help towards finding the cause.
> Not-to-be-trusted bisection log appended: of course the bads are
> reliable, but perhaps none of the goods.

Yeah, my first bisection results look totally different.
I can do 100 suspend/resumes fine on 3.6.0, but it fails after just 2-3
on 3.7.0, so it looks like the bug I'm chasing happened before whatever
is affecting you. (Or maybe you just didn't get 'lucky' when testing rc1,
and it wasn't good after all).

Now that I have what appears to be a 'good' candidate, hopefully
a bisection can quickly get to the bottom of this.

Dave

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