Re: [Xen-devel] Xen 4.2.0 Release Plan / TODO

[Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik@xxxxxx>]

On Thu, Sep 06, 2012 at 10:35:44AM -0400, Ben Guthro wrote:
> I may have claimed success on this second one too soon. Subsequent
> tests, and expansion to other systems shows S3 still to be a problem
> on these laptops.
> 
> Being a laptop, without a serial port, of course makes this more
> difficult to debug.
> I'll continue to look into it.
> 

You probably know this already but here goes anyway.. 
you could use an expresscard serial card, or if the laptop has Intel vPro (AMT),
then it has a Serial Over LAN (SOL) port, which can be used for Xen 
debugging/logging.

-- Pasi

> On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 9:40 AM, Ben Guthro <ben@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Good news on this front, as well - it seems to fix the "blinky power
> > button" failure, as well.
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 8:55 AM, Ben Guthro <ben@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> FWIW, I ran this through 100 suspend / resume cycles successfully, on
> >> the machine where I could only do one before.
> >>
> >> I'm still waiting for a laptop to free up that exhibited the other S3
> >> failure where it went to sleep, but just pulsed the power LED when
> >> asked to wake up.
> >> I'm cautiously hopeful this fixes that problem, as well.
> >>
> >> Ben
> >>
> >> On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 8:36 AM, Jan Beulich <JBeulich@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>>>>> On 03.09.12 at 11:42, Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>>> hypervisor, nice to have:
> >>>>
> >>>>     * S3 regression(s?) reported by Ben Guthro (Ben & Jan Beulich)
> >>>
> >>> So it looks like we got this nailed down (actually requiring two
> >>> fixes). Would it be intended to still get these in before the
> >>> release, or leave them for 4.3/4.2.1?
> >>>
> >>> Jan
> >>>
> >>> NB:  I also found an unrelated issue earlier today where a
> >>> hypercall would return success when it actually failed, but I
> >>> won't even bother sending that out if the fixes needed here
> >>> aren't to be considered, as that's clearly minor compared to
> >>> the regression here.
> >>>
> >>>
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