Re: 2.6.29: can't resume from suspend with DMAR (intel iommu)enabled

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Tue Mar 24 2009 - 16:33:52 EST



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* Andrew Lutomirski <amluto@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On vanilla 2.6.29 (on Ubuntu 8.10), on a Lenovo x200s, my system
> is completely hosed on resume. It appears that even hard disk IO
> didn't work (trying to do *anything* including getting a dmesg
> trace just spewed sda io errors to the console). Hence no trace.
> I did an alt-sysrq-b and the screen went blank and the machine
> just started beeping at me.
>
> Resume works much better with intel_iommu=off. (I remember seeing
> a patch go by that purported to fix resume with IOMMU enabled, but
> it didn't work for me.)
>
> I'd be happy to try to make a better bug report if anyone has any
> bright ideas.

i have a Lenovo T500 that does not even boot with with DMAR enabled
in the BIOS (it's default-off), i get this panic in early bootup:

DMAR hardware is malfunctioning

So i dont get to test suspend/resume ;-)

Ingo
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