[OLPC-devel] Thoughts on S3 resume.

[Jim Gettys]

Chris,

One other thing I immediately note beyond your catch of IDE is vesafb.
You should switch over to using the gx frame buffer driver.

There isn't any way to get timestamps each line of the log, is there?
That would tell us lots about where time is going.
                               - Jim


On Thu, 2006-08-10 at 08:40 +0100, Chris Ball wrote:
> >> On Mon, 07 Aug 2006 21:54:24 -0400, Jim Gettys <jg at laptop.org> said: 
> 
>    > The measurement that is interesting is when the kernel is executing
>    > off of the internal flash, and nothing plugged into USB.  I'd like
>    > to have two numbers: with and without the USB stack loaded (I know,
>    > it will be painful to get the second number until the PS/2
>    > interface is easy to use).
> 
> I think I have a setup able to measure the second number (using a
> ramdisk), but the results are still poor so far.  I:
> 
>    * put busybox in the developer image initrd
>    * told the initrd to run a busybox shell instead of switchrooting
>    * wrote a simple program (timestamp) to output the result of 
>      gettimeofday(2), and put it in the initrd.
>    * booted my initrd from usb, with a serial console, then unplugged
>      the usb stick and hub.
>    * rmmod until no modules loaded (which included usb_storage,
>      ehci-hcd, uhci-hcd, scsi_mod, sd_mod, ext3, jbd)
>    * set an alarm, and echo -n "mem" > /sys/power/state && timestamp
>  
> The resulting serial console log file is attached, with the timestamp
> output as the last line.  It still takes 19 seconds from the board
> drawing full power again to my userspace code running; this time we at
> least have kernel BUG()s to go on, though.
> 
> Anyone have advice on how to proceed, especially with regards to the
> BUG()s?  I plan to build AMD_IDE (amd74xx.c) as a module rather than
> compiled in, so that I can unload that too, and add CONFIG_PRINTK_TIME
> in case it shows that a particular driver's resume path is responsible.
> I'll be able to do those tomorrow.
> 
> - Chris.
-- 
Jim Gettys
One Laptop Per Child