Applied.

This may be the start of unlocking the door to a new class of S3 resume 
failures.

thanks,
-Len

On Tuesday 15 August 2006 01:37, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> From: William Morrrow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> 
> This was discovered on a broken BIOS that simply returned from its suspend
> procedure, appearing to the OS as a failed S3 attempt.
> 
> It is possible to invoke the protected mode register restore routine (which
> would normally restore the sysenter registers) when the bios returns from
> S3.  This has no effect on a correctly running system and repairs the
> damage from broken BIOS.
> 
> Signed-off-by: William Morrow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Signed-off-by: Jordan Crouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: "Yu, Luming" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: "Brown, Len" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> ---
> 
>  arch/i386/kernel/acpi/wakeup.S |    5 ++++-
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff -puN 
> arch/i386/kernel/acpi/wakeup.S~acpi-correctly-recover-from-a-failed-s3-attempt
>  arch/i386/kernel/acpi/wakeup.S
> --- 
> a/arch/i386/kernel/acpi/wakeup.S~acpi-correctly-recover-from-a-failed-s3-attempt
> +++ a/arch/i386/kernel/acpi/wakeup.S
> @@ -292,7 +292,10 @@ ENTRY(do_suspend_lowlevel)
>       pushl   $3
>       call    acpi_enter_sleep_state
>       addl    $4, %esp
> -     ret
> +
> +#    In case of S3 failure, we'll emerge here.  Jump
> +#    to ret_point to recover
> +     jmp     ret_point
>       .p2align 4,,7
>  ret_point:
>       call    restore_registers
> _
> -
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