Re: Resume from swsusp stopped working with 2.6.14 and 2.6.15-rc1

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Hi,

On Tuesday, 22 of November 2005 19:47, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > > > > > >> Bjorn, does it help if you change TIMEOUT in kernel/power/process.c to 30 * HZ?
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > Funny, I thought that 6 seconds is way too much. Bjorn, please let us
> > > > > > > know if 30 seconds timeout helps.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > It does.
> > > > >
> > > > > Ouch, yes, that's clear. It is stopping tasks during *resume*... So I
> > > > > guess it gets wrong timing by design. Question is what to do with
> > > > > that. Could we make keyboard driver pause the boot until it is done
> > > > > resetting hardware? Or we can increase the timeout... would 10 seconds
> > > > > be enough?
> > > > 
> > > > Well, I think 10 seconds when suspending is a nice and resonable
> > > > number. For resume though I think we should wait much longer, maybe
> > > > even indefinitely - the only thing that timeout achieves is makes
> > > > people fsck because the system can't recover from that state.
> > > 
> > > I see your point, but it does not seem we need that changes this far. Your
> > > patch is better, because we *could* hit that during suspend, just after 
> > > keyboard hotplug... right? And it will make resume faster for affected people.
> > 
> > I disagree here. While my patch is a right thing to do (and as you
> > know is already merged in mainline) it is not "better". Swsusp should
> > not rely on the other subsystems being "nice" to it. Even with my
> > patch there still could be moments when some thread is not suspended
> > in 6 seconds when resuming causing unneeded resume failure and
> > subsequent fsck. 
> > 
> > Please consider merging the patch below.
> 
> Well, I do not think this problem will surface again. It is first
> failure in pretty long time. If it happens again, I'll take your
> patch.

If so, could you please make it printk() a message after the timeout has
passed?  This way the user will know what's going on at least.

Greetings,
Rafael
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