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Pavel Machek06df6a52006-12-06 20:34:46 -08001 How to get s2ram working
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3 2006 Linus Torvalds
4 2006 Pavel Machek
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61) Check suspend.sf.net, program s2ram there has long whitelist of
7 "known ok" machines, along with tricks to use on each one.
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92) If that does not help, try reading tricks.txt and
10 video.txt. Perhaps problem is as simple as broken module, and
11 simple module unload can fix it.
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133) You can use Linus' TRACE_RESUME infrastructure, described below.
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15 Using TRACE_RESUME
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18I've been working at making the machines I have able to STR, and almost
19always it's a driver that is buggy. Thank God for the suspend/resume
20debugging - the thing that Chuck tried to disable. That's often the _only_
21way to debug these things, and it's actually pretty powerful (but
22time-consuming - having to insert TRACE_RESUME() markers into the device
23driver that doesn't resume and recompile and reboot).
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25Anyway, the way to debug this for people who are interested (have a
26machine that doesn't boot) is:
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28 - enable PM_DEBUG, and PM_TRACE
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30 - use a script like this:
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32 #!/bin/sh
33 sync
34 echo 1 > /sys/power/pm_trace
35 echo mem > /sys/power/state
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37 to suspend
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39 - if it doesn't come back up (which is usually the problem), reboot by
40 holding the power button down, and look at the dmesg output for things
41 like
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43 Magic number: 4:156:725
44 hash matches drivers/base/power/resume.c:28
45 hash matches device 0000:01:00.0
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47 which means that the last trace event was just before trying to resume
48 device 0000:01:00.0. Then figure out what driver is controlling that
49 device (lspci and /sys/devices/pci* is your friend), and see if you can
50 fix it, disable it, or trace into its resume function.
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52For example, the above happens to be the VGA device on my EVO, which I
53used to run with "radeonfb" (it's an ATI Radeon mobility). It turns out
54that "radeonfb" simply cannot resume that device - it tries to set the
55PLL's, and it just _hangs_. Using the regular VGA console and letting X
56resume it instead works fine.
Frans Popb25f29b2008-10-15 22:01:21 -070057
58NOTE
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60pm_trace uses the system's Real Time Clock (RTC) to save the magic number.
61Reason for this is that the RTC is the only reliably available piece of
62hardware during resume operations where a value can be set that will
63survive a reboot.
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65Consequence is that after a resume (even if it is successful) your system
Matt LaPlante19f59462009-04-27 15:06:31 +020066clock will have a value corresponding to the magic number instead of the
Frans Popb25f29b2008-10-15 22:01:21 -070067correct date/time! It is therefore advisable to use a program like ntp-date
68or rdate to reset the correct date/time from an external time source when
69using this trace option.
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71As the clock keeps ticking it is also essential that the reboot is done
72quickly after the resume failure. The trace option does not use the seconds
73or the low order bits of the minutes of the RTC, but a too long delay will
74corrupt the magic value.