Re: 4.16 regression: s2ram broken on non-PAE i686

From: Thomas Gleixner
Date: Wed Feb 28 2018 - 03:59:33 EST


Woody,

On Tue, 27 Feb 2018, Woody Suwalski wrote:

> There is a problem with s2ram on 4.16, and it has now been propagated
> to 4.15 and 4.14 stable updates.
>
> It originates from
>
> commit 62c00e6122a6b5aa7b1350023967a2d7a12b54c9
> Author: William Grant <william.grant@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> <mailto:william.grant@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>>
> Date: Tue Jan 30 22:22:55 2018 +1100
>
> x86/mm: Fix overlap of i386 CPU_ENTRY_AREA with FIX_BTMAP
>
> s2ram works OK on PAE kernels, breaks badly on non-PAE. I do not think
> that the problem can be duplicated in VMPlayer, but it is 100%
> reproducible on a "real" hardware.
> System goes to sleep OK, but when woken - it reboots the PC.
>
> The issue is tracked in Bugzilla bug 198763
> [https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=198763]

Thanks for digging into this so far. Can you please provide dmesg output
from a PAE=y and PAE=n kernel after boot?

Thanks,

tglx