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2 How to get s2ram working
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8 1) Check suspend.sf.net, program s2ram there has long whitelist of
9 "known ok" machines, along with tricks to use on each one.
11 2) If that does not help, try reading tricks.txt and
12 video.txt. Perhaps problem is as simple as broken module, and
13 simple module unload can fix it.
15 3) You can use Linus' TRACE_RESUME infrastructure, described below.
20 I've been working at making the machines I have able to STR, and almost
21 always it's a driver that is buggy. Thank God for the suspend/resume
22 debugging - the thing that Chuck tried to disable. That's often the _only_
23 way to debug these things, and it's actually pretty powerful (but
24 time-consuming - having to insert TRACE_RESUME() markers into the device
25 driver that doesn't resume and recompile and reboot).
27 Anyway, the way to debug this for people who are interested (have a
28 machine that doesn't boot) is:
30 - enable PM_DEBUG, and PM_TRACE
32 - use a script like this::
36 echo 1 > /sys/power/pm_trace
37 echo mem > /sys/power/state
41 - if it doesn't come back up (which is usually the problem), reboot by
42 holding the power button down, and look at the dmesg output for things
45 Magic number: 4:156:725
46 hash matches drivers/base/power/resume.c:28
47 hash matches device 0000:01:00.0
49 which means that the last trace event was just before trying to resume
50 device 0000:01:00.0. Then figure out what driver is controlling that
51 device (lspci and /sys/devices/pci* is your friend), and see if you can
52 fix it, disable it, or trace into its resume function.
54 If no device matches the hash (or any matches appear to be false positives),
55 the culprit may be a device from a loadable kernel module that is not loaded
56 until after the hash is checked. You can check the hash against the current
57 devices again after more modules are loaded using sysfs::
59 cat /sys/power/pm_trace_dev_match
61 For example, the above happens to be the VGA device on my EVO, which I
62 used to run with "radeonfb" (it's an ATI Radeon mobility). It turns out
63 that "radeonfb" simply cannot resume that device - it tries to set the
64 PLL's, and it just _hangs_. Using the regular VGA console and letting X
65 resume it instead works fine.
69 pm_trace uses the system's Real Time Clock (RTC) to save the magic number.
70 Reason for this is that the RTC is the only reliably available piece of
71 hardware during resume operations where a value can be set that will
74 pm_trace is not compatible with asynchronous suspend, so it turns
75 asynchronous suspend off (which may work around timing or
76 ordering-sensitive bugs).
78 Consequence is that after a resume (even if it is successful) your system
79 clock will have a value corresponding to the magic number instead of the
80 correct date/time! It is therefore advisable to use a program like ntp-date
81 or rdate to reset the correct date/time from an external time source when
82 using this trace option.
84 As the clock keeps ticking it is also essential that the reboot is done
85 quickly after the resume failure. The trace option does not use the seconds
86 or the low order bits of the minutes of the RTC, but a too long delay will
87 corrupt the magic value.