Commit 53998648 authored Sep 24, 2010 by Rafael J. Wysocki Committed by Len Brown Sep 24, 2010

PM / ACPI: Blacklist systems known to require acpi_sleep=nonvs

Commit 2a6b6976 (ACPI: Store NVS
state even when entering suspend to RAM) changed the ACPI suspend
to RAM code so that the NVS memory area is always unconditionally
saved during suspend and restored during resume, since some systems
evidently need that for the suspend-resume to work on them.  However,
it turned out that this change broke suspend-resume on a few systems,
so commit 72ad5d77 (ACPI / Sleep:
Allow the NVS saving to be skipped during suspend to RAM) introduced
the acpi_sleep=nonvs command line switch to allow their users to
work around this issue.  To keep track of the systems that require
this workaround and to make the life of their users slightly easier
blacklist them in acpisleep_dmi_table[].

https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16396



Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>

parent 2422084a

drivers/acpi/sleep.c

+22 −0

Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -363,6 +363,12 @@ static int __init init_old_suspend_ordering(const struct dmi_system_id *d)
		return 0;
		}

		static int __init init_nvs_nosave(const struct dmi_system_id *d)
		{
		acpi_nvs_nosave();
		return 0;
		}

		static struct dmi_system_id __initdata acpisleep_dmi_table[] = {
		{
		.callback = init_old_suspend_ordering,
		@@ -397,6 +403,22 @@ static struct dmi_system_id __initdata acpisleep_dmi_table[] = {
		DMI_MATCH(DMI_BOARD_NAME, "CF51-2L"),
		},
		},
		{
		.callback = init_nvs_nosave,
		.ident = "Sony Vaio VGN-SR11M",
		.matches = {
		DMI_MATCH(DMI_SYS_VENDOR, "Sony Corporation"),
		DMI_MATCH(DMI_PRODUCT_NAME, "VGN-SR11M"),
		},
		},
		{
		.callback = init_nvs_nosave,
		.ident = "Everex StepNote Series",
		.matches = {
		DMI_MATCH(DMI_SYS_VENDOR, "Everex Systems, Inc."),
		DMI_MATCH(DMI_PRODUCT_NAME, "Everex StepNote Series"),
		},
		},
		{},
		};
		#endif /* CONFIG_SUSPEND */

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