Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 10 Jul 2006 09:55:24 +0200 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: [BUG] APM resume breakage from 2.6.18-rc1 clocksource changes |
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On Mon 2006-07-10 01:52:35, Mikael Pettersson wrote: > On Sun, 09 Jul 2006 14:20:56 -0700, john stultz wrote: > >> I've traced the cause of this problem to the i386 time-keeping > >> changes in kernel 2.6.17-git11. What happens is that: > >> - The kernel autoselects TSC as my clocksource, which is > >> reasonable since it's a PentiumII. 2.6.17 also chose the TSC. > >> - Immediately after APM resumes (arch/i386/kernel/apm.c line > >> 1231 in 2.6.18-rc1) there is an interrupt from the PIT, > >> which takes us to kernel/timer.c:update_wall_time(). > >> - update_wall_time() does a clocksource_read() and computes > >> the offset from the previous read. However, the TSC was > >> reset by HW or BIOS during the APM suspend/resume cycle and > >> is now smaller than it was at the prevous read. On my machine, > >> the offset is 0xffffffd598e0a566 at this point, which appears > >> to throw update_wall_time() into a very very long loop. > > > >Huh. It seems you're getting an interrupt before timekeeping_resume() > >runs (which resets cycle_last). I'll look over the code and see if I can > >sort out why it works w/ ACPI suspend, but not APM, or if the > >resume/interrupt-enablement bit is just racy in general. > > I forgot to mention this, but I had a debug printk() in apm.c > which showed that irqs_disabled() == 0 at the point when APM > resumes the kernel.
/* * These are the actual BIOS calls. Depending on APM_ZERO_SEGS and * apm_info.allow_ints, we are being really paranoid here! Not only * are interrupts disabled, but all the segment registers (except SS) * are saved and zeroed this means that if the BIOS tries to reference * any data without explicitly loading the segment registers, the kernel * will fault immediately rather than have some unforeseen circumstances * for the rest of the kernel. And it will be very obvious! :-) Doing * this depends on CS referring to the same physical memory as DS so that * DS can be zeroed before the call. Unfortunately, we can't do anything * about the stack segment/pointer. Also, we tell the compiler that * everything could change. * * Also, we KNOW that for the non error case of apm_bios_call, there * is no useful data returned in the low order 8 bits of eax. */ #define APM_DO_CLI \ if (apm_info.allow_ints) \ local_irq_enable(); \ else \ local_irq_disable();
...and I think allow_ints was invented because of thinkpads.. So AFAICT you can't rely on interrupts being off and you can't rely on interrupts being on.
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