[linux-pm] release early... powermac g5 suspend to disk

[Pavel Machek]

Hi!

> Wow. 2 days and a mostly destroyed XFS filesystem (it's still running
> but I better not touch some directories or it goes belly up, xfs_repair
> craps out too) I actually suspended my quad powermac a few times.

Congratulations! Hehe, you have nice testcase for xfs now :-).

[ext2 is the filesystem you proably want to use while hacking such code]. 

> Half of the time I'll be told by the softlockup watchdog that it locked
> up, but sometimes it actually works, that is, it suspends and resumes.
> 
> Issues: I don't save MPIC state. Hence, anything that is compiled in as
> modules will no longer get IRQs after resume. Like USB on my system. So
> I only ohci_hcd and ehci_hcd before suspend, reload later (from a
> script) and I can still use the keyboard after ;)
> 
> Same goes for tg3 even though it is built-in. Well, I held off looking
> at the MPIC because Ben said he was rewriting the whole interrupt stuff
> anyway.
> 
> Other issues: yeah, this is extremely ugly. If you like your machine,
> don't take a look.

I like my machine. I'll take a look anyway ;-). It is not _that_
bad... at least it is short :).
								Pavel


> --- linux-2.6-git.orig/kernel/power/snapshot.c	2006-06-23 11:37:23.433885225 +0200
> +++ linux-2.6-git/kernel/power/snapshot.c	2006-06-23 11:39:03.352985945 +0200
> @@ -177,7 +177,13 @@
>  		return 0;
>  
>  	page = pfn_to_page(pfn);
> +/*
> +    I currently mark the physical memory that we reserve
> +    and _don't_ map for kernel access as Nosave so we won't
> +    try to save it... Not sure what to do.
> +
>  	BUG_ON(PageReserved(page) && PageNosave(page));
> +*/

I believe this is gone in -git kernels for some other reasons.
									Pavel
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