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Date:      Wed, 3 Dec 2008 16:14:39 -0700
From:      "Steve Franks" <franks@rudbek.com>
To:        "Jung-uk Kim" <jkim@freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-acpi@freebsd.org, peter@freebsd.org, freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Semi-working patch for amd64 suspend/resume
Message-ID:  <539c60b90812031514x3246ca09ua2febc879f8a7fcf@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <539c60b90812031334kfe23981s35b965b12462a5b2@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <1224616985.00027652.1224606603@10.7.7.3> <1224728582.00028075.1224715806@10.7.7.3> <4932F34C.1040804@FreeBSD.org> <200812021243.08513.jkim@FreeBSD.org> <539c60b90812031334kfe23981s35b965b12462a5b2@mail.gmail.com>

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> On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 10:43 AM, Jung-uk Kim <jkim@freebsd.org> wrote:
>> On Sunday 30 November 2008 03:10 pm, Alexander Motin wrote:
>>> Hi.
>>>
>>> Alexander Motin wrote:
>>> > Jung-uk Kim wrote:
>>> >> I was working on suspend/resume support for amd64 and this is
>>> >> the result.  It works with a modified QEMU (QEMU does not
>>> >> support S3) but real boxes that I have don't seem to like it
>>> >> (e.g., broken BIOSes). If there is someone interested in
>>> >> finishing it off or giving it a try, the patch is here:
>>> >>
>>> >> http://people.freebsd.org/~jkim/amd64_suspend.diff
>>> >
>>> > I have tried it on my Acer TM6292. S1/S2 are unsupported. On S3
>>> > system successfully got down, but on wakeup button, two seconds
>>> > after power up, even without video initialization, it shut down,
>>> > reset and then started usual boot. I have tried both original and
>>> > updated BIOS, without any difference.
>>> >
>>> > Can I give you any other help?
>>>
>>> I have spent a day investigating the problem. I was inserting empty
>>> infinite loop into the different points of wakeup process trying to
>>> find the place where system reboots. I just haven't found any other
>>> feedback channel as video is not initialized and beeper is not
>>> working for some reason.
>>>
>>> As result, I have found, that if I am inserting:
>>> qqq:
>>>
>>>          jmp     qqq
>>> lines before line 98 of acpi_switch.S:
>>>       movl    $MSR_MTRRdefType, %ecx
>>>
>>>          movl    WAKEUP_CTX(mtrr), %eax
>>>
>>>          wrmsr
>>> system hangs, but if I insert it just after them - system reboots.
>>>
>>> With just commenting this three lines I was able to get successful
>>> suspend/resume with UP amd64 kernel!!!
>>
>> Good catch!  I can confirm this is a correct bandaid.  We cannot
>> restore this MSR without restoring entire MTRR map.  Actually, I
>> should have written separate functions to save/restore all global
>> MSRs.  Only per-CPU MSRs should be embedded like that.
>>
>>> Here is problems I still have now:
>>>   - SMP kernel resume is not working, system reboots while doing
>>> acpi_wakeup_cpus();
>>
>> My dual-core CPU seems to resume okay but quite unstable.  Can you try
>> something like the following in amd64/mp_machdep.c and tell me if it
>> helps?
>>
>> ------------
>> @@ -57,6 +57,7 @@
>>  #include <vm/vm_extern.h>
>>
>>  #include <machine/apicreg.h>
>> +#include <machine/cpufunc.h>
>>  #include <machine/md_var.h>
>>  #include <machine/mp_watchdog.h>
>>  #include <machine/pcb.h>
>> @@ -1121,6 +1121,8 @@
>>        int cpumask = PCPU_GET(cpumask);
>>
>>        if (savectx2(&stopxpcbs[cpu])) {
>> +               /* Flush CPU cache. */
>> +               wbinvd();
>>                /* Indicate that we are suspended. */
>>                atomic_set_int(&stopped_cpus, cpumask);
>>        } else {
>> ------------
>>
>>>   - text mode video does not restores on resume, while Xorg graphic
>>> one does. hw.acpi.reset_video=1 does not help, it just hanging
>>> resume process.
>>
>> It is very common problem for modern video cards.  We cannot do much
>> here without help of GPU-specific routines (e.g., ATI ATOM BIOS
>> parser for RadeonHD) or in-kernel realmode emulation[1] (e.g.,
>> NetBSD).
>>
>> Thanks for the feedback!
>>
>> Jung-uk Kim
>>
>> [1] http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/src/common/lib/libx86emu/
>> http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/src/sys/arch/x86/x86/vga_post.c
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>

Do you believe these patches should work against 6.4?  I should like
to try it out on my trusty 'ol desktop.

Best,
Steve



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