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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