Linux 2.6.32-rc8 - T500 fails to suspend to RAM

Hi,

Ever since I've upgraded to rc8, my T500 fails to suspend to RAM for the second time. Suspending for the first time works ok but when I resume and later try to suspend again the screen gets blank and the moon LED blinks forever. rc6 & rc7 as well as 2.6.31 worked great with out a problem.

Hi,

Ever since I've upgraded to rc8, my T500 fails to suspend to RAM for the second time. Suspending for the first time works ok but when I resume and later try to suspend again the screen gets blank and the moon LED blinks forever. rc6 & rc7 as well as 2.6.31 worked great with out a problem.

Quoted 7 lines · Lior Dotan

Hi,

Ever since I've upgraded to rc8, my T500 fails to suspend to RAM for the second time. Suspending for the first time works ok but when I resume and later try to suspend again the screen gets blank and the moon LED blinks forever. rc6 & rc7 as well as 2.6.31 worked great with out a problem.

Well, I don't see any particular change that might cause the symptoms you describe between -rc7 and -rc8. If this is 100% reproducible, I guess bisecting is the only option at the moment.

Quoted 7 lines · Lior Dotan

Hi,

Ever since I've upgraded to rc8, my T500 fails to suspend to RAM for the second time. Suspending for the first time works ok but when I resume and later try to suspend again the screen gets blank and the moon LED blinks forever. rc6 & rc7 as well as 2.6.31 worked great with out a problem.

Well, I don't see any particular change that might cause the symptoms you describe between -rc7 and -rc8. If this is 100% reproducible, I guess bisecting is the only option at the moment.

Quoted 7 lines · Lior Dotan

Hi,

Ever since I've upgraded to rc8, my T500 fails to suspend to RAM for the second time. Suspending for the first time works ok but when I resume and later try to suspend again the screen gets blank and the moon LED blinks forever. rc6 & rc7 as well as 2.6.31 worked great with out a problem.

Well, I don't see any particular change that might cause the symptoms you describe between -rc7 and -rc8. If this is 100% reproducible, I guess bisecting is the only option at the moment.

Quoted 7 lines · Lior Dotan

Hi,

Ever since I've upgraded to rc8, my T500 fails to suspend to RAM for the second time. Suspending for the first time works ok but when I resume and later try to suspend again the screen gets blank and the moon LED blinks forever. rc6 & rc7 as well as 2.6.31 worked great with out a problem.

Well, I don't see any particular change that might cause the symptoms you describe between -rc7 and -rc8. If this is 100% reproducible, I guess bisecting is the only option at the moment.

Quoted 10 lines · Rafael J. Wysocki

Quoted 7 lines · Lior Dotan

Hi,

Ever since I've upgraded to rc8, my T500 fails to suspend to RAM for the second time. Suspending for the first time works ok but when I resume and later try to suspend again the screen gets blank and the moon LED blinks forever. rc6 & rc7 as well as 2.6.31 worked great with out a problem.

Quoted 4 lines

Well, I don't see any particular change that might cause the symptoms you describe between -rc7 and -rc8. If this is 100% reproducible, I guess bisecting is the only option at the moment.

I tried bisecting it, not sure if it's any good but this is what I got:

ldot@topaz ~/linux/linux-2.6 $ git bisect bad
Bisecting: 0 revisions left to test after this (roughly 0 steps) [1456edbb1476db735715ddcc7ac306de587024eb] kconfig: Make zconf.y work with current bison
ldot@topaz ~/linux/linux-2.6 $ git bisect log
git bisect start
# bad: [648f4e3e50c4793d9dbf9a09afa193631f76fa26] Linux 2.6.32-rc8 git bisect bad 648f4e3e50c4793d9dbf9a09afa193631f76fa26
# good: [156171c71a0dc4bce12b4408bb1591f8fe32dc1a] Linux 2.6.32-rc7 git bisect good 156171c71a0dc4bce12b4408bb1591f8fe32dc1a
# bad: [b6b24c73d56a166a829318a1f06803ff9b54857b] spi: error status should be negative
git bisect bad b6b24c73d56a166a829318a1f06803ff9b54857b
# bad: [82abc2a97a4a3c7635c40e6dff571816062ec506] Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ryusuke/nilfs2
git bisect bad 82abc2a97a4a3c7635c40e6dff571816062ec506
# good: [24dfb2b5867df24ba03b6c4418312e23b1300aa8] Merge branch 'upstream' of git://ftp.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/upstream-linus
git bisect good 24dfb2b5867df24ba03b6c4418312e23b1300aa8
# bad: [e8e63cbf9a339c972eeb5ccf8777c8067bdfd869] oss: Mark loadhex

static in hex2hex.c
git bisect bad e8e63cbf9a339c972eeb5ccf8777c8067bdfd869
# bad: [ad0cd62ab632afe9b562b5f09343c21e1521505d] arch/alpha/boot/tools/objstrip.c: Mark "usage" static
git bisect bad ad0cd62ab632afe9b562b5f09343c21e1521505d
# bad: [65166571800af0f63f21e5576d7db12d2bf73790] kconfig: Mark various internal functions static
git bisect bad 65166571800af0f63f21e5576d7db12d2bf73790

Quoted 10 lines · Rafael J. Wysocki

Quoted 7 lines · Lior Dotan

Hi,

Ever since I've upgraded to rc8, my T500 fails to suspend to RAM for the second time. Suspending for the first time works ok but when I resume and later try to suspend again the screen gets blank and the moon LED blinks forever. rc6 & rc7 as well as 2.6.31 worked great with out a problem.

Quoted 4 lines

Well, I don't see any particular change that might cause the symptoms you describe between -rc7 and -rc8. If this is 100% reproducible, I guess bisecting is the only option at the moment.

I tried bisecting it, not sure if it's any good but this is what I got:

ldot@topaz ~/linux/linux-2.6 $ git bisect bad
Bisecting: 0 revisions left to test after this (roughly 0 steps) [1456edbb1476db735715ddcc7ac306de587024eb] kconfig: Make zconf.y work with current bison
ldot@topaz ~/linux/linux-2.6 $ git bisect log
git bisect start
# bad: [648f4e3e50c4793d9dbf9a09afa193631f76fa26] Linux 2.6.32-rc8 git bisect bad 648f4e3e50c4793d9dbf9a09afa193631f76fa26
# good: [156171c71a0dc4bce12b4408bb1591f8fe32dc1a] Linux 2.6.32-rc7 git bisect good 156171c71a0dc4bce12b4408bb1591f8fe32dc1a
# bad: [b6b24c73d56a166a829318a1f06803ff9b54857b] spi: error status should be negative
git bisect bad b6b24c73d56a166a829318a1f06803ff9b54857b
# bad: [82abc2a97a4a3c7635c40e6dff571816062ec506] Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ryusuke/nilfs2
git bisect bad 82abc2a97a4a3c7635c40e6dff571816062ec506
# good: [24dfb2b5867df24ba03b6c4418312e23b1300aa8] Merge branch 'upstream' of git://ftp.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/upstream-linus
git bisect good 24dfb2b5867df24ba03b6c4418312e23b1300aa8
# bad: [e8e63cbf9a339c972eeb5ccf8777c8067bdfd869] oss: Mark loadhex

static in hex2hex.c
git bisect bad e8e63cbf9a339c972eeb5ccf8777c8067bdfd869
# bad: [ad0cd62ab632afe9b562b5f09343c21e1521505d] arch/alpha/boot/tools/objstrip.c: Mark "usage" static
git bisect bad ad0cd62ab632afe9b562b5f09343c21e1521505d
# bad: [65166571800af0f63f21e5576d7db12d2bf73790] kconfig: Mark various internal functions static
git bisect bad 65166571800af0f63f21e5576d7db12d2bf73790

Ever since I've upgraded to rc8, my T500 fails to suspend to RAM for the second time. Suspending for the first time works ok but when I resume and later try to suspend again the screen gets blank and the moon LED blinks forever. rc6 & rc7 as well as 2.6.31 worked great with out a problem.

Quoted 4 lines · Lior Dotan

Ever since I've upgraded to rc8, my T500 fails to suspend to RAM for the second time. Suspending for the first time works ok but when I resume and later try to suspend again the screen gets blank and the moon LED blinks forever. rc6 & rc7 as well as 2.6.31 worked great with out a problem.

How are you suspending -- pm-suspend, gnome power manager, closing the lid, ... ?

Quoted 4 lines · Andy Isaacson

For what it's worth, I'm testing suspend-to-ram on Ubuntu 9.10 x86_64 with 2.6.32 final on a T500 and it's been pretty reliable -- I've suspended by closing the lid at least a dozen times and it hasn't locked up yet.

I'm using either KDE menu to suspend or hibernate-ram from hibernate-script. I will try to use the lid and see if it makes any difference. The strange thing is that I tried using rc6 & rc7 and they don't work now even though they used to, so I now I need to see what broke it.

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1. are you using DMAR (VT-d)? I'm not, and I had problems on another machine (also Core 2 Duo with GM45 graphics) when I tried suspending with CONFIG_DMAR=y.

I disabled DMAR but still no luck.

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2. are you running into http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14484
or a similar problem?
3. (if you have GMA graphics) Are you up to date on the xorg-video-intel driver? I'm using KMS and xorg-video-intel 2.9.0. 2.8.x is missing some relevant bugfixes. (Of course if you have ATI graphics then this isn't relevant.)

I'm using the Radeon GPU so no KMS for me yet.

Re-adding LKML.

Quoted 7 lines · Lior Dotan

Quoted 5 lines · Andy Isaacson

For what it's worth, I'm testing suspend-to-ram on Ubuntu 9.10 x86_64 with 2.6.32 final on a T500 and it's been pretty reliable -- I've suspended by closing the lid at least a dozen times and it hasn't locked up yet.

Quoted 5 lines

I'm using either KDE menu to suspend or hibernate-ram from hibernate-script. I will try to use the lid and see if it makes any difference. The strange thing is that I tried using rc6 & rc7 and they don't work now even though they used to, so I now I need to see what broke it.

I mentioned the lid because of BZ #14484 which is only on Intel GMA plus using the lid switch to trigger suspend. Since neither is relevant to you it's just a red herring. :)

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1. are you using DMAR (VT-d)? I'm not, and I had problems on another machine (also Core 2 Duo with GM45 graphics) when I tried suspending with CONFIG_DMAR=y.

I disabled DMAR but still no luck.

It's getting better but DMAR has still been a little problematic for me the last few months. Updating to the very latest BIOS does help sometimes.

Quoted 8 lines

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2. are you running into http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14484
or a similar problem?
3. (if you have GMA graphics) Are you up to date on the xorg-video-intel driver? I'm using KMS and xorg-video-intel 2.9.0. 2.8.x is missing some relevant bugfixes. (Of course if you have ATI graphics then this isn't relevant.)

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I'm using the Radeon GPU so no KMS for me yet.

Sounds like your Radeon or fglrx driver got updated and broke suspend/resume.

-andy