Bug#611750: Asus EeePC resume from hibernation fails

[Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>]

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Hi again,

Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> Gerald Turner wrote:

>> I've upgraded to 2.6.32-31 some weeks ago and have noticed that the
>> problem still exists, resume doesn't fail every time, so this afternoon
>> I'm trying a more thorough examination.
> [...]
>>   For the first 10 consecutive suspend/resume cycles I had nothing but
>>   an empty gnome desktop and gnome-terminal running.  Then I added
>>   pidgin and ekiga.  At cycle 15 I fired up emacs.  At cycle 20 I
>>   launched a handful of random gnome utilities (gcalctool, gconf-editor,
>>   gucharmap, nautilus, file-roller, palimpsest, gnome-dictionary).  The
>>   25th resume failed.
>>
>> Could it be memory related?
[...]
>  - Does backing out the patch "x86, hotplug: Use mwait to offline a
>    processor, fix the legacy case" that Frédéric mentioned[1] help?

I have no reason to believe it would (except that Frédéric also uses
an EeePC), but just in case, 2.6.32-36 has that patch backed out.  So
results from testing with a recent squeeze kernel would be interesting.