2011-03-24 Power Management

Fedora Test Days

Power Management

Date	2011-03-24
Time	all day

Website	QA/Fedora_15_test_days
IRC	#fedora-test-day (webirc)
Mailing list	test

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What to test?

Today's instalment of Fedora Test Day will focus on Power Management

Who's available

The following cast of characters will be available for testing, workarounds, bug fixes, and general discussion ...

Development - Jaroslav Škarvada (jskarvad)
Quality Assurance - Jan Ščotka (jscotka)

Note: jskarvad will be available during 09:00 - 14:30 (UTC+1) on #fedora-test-day, #fedora-power, #fedora-devel, otherwise he will be on e-mail with non guaranteed response time.

Prerequisite for Test Day

PM Test Day LiveCD or an updated Fedora 15 pre-release or you may get nightly composed LiveCD.
- It is possible to convert the LiveCD into LiveUSB by following the How_to_create_and_use_Live_USB instructions.
Your hardware profile uploaded to Smolt according to these instructions

Typing convetions

In the following text commands that needs to be run as root are prefixed by #, e.g.:

# id

means to run id command under the root account. Commands prefixed by $ do not need to be run under the root account.

How to test?

Focus on pm-utils, powertop, tuned. Some test cases are only for laptop users and it is signalled in test case description field. If you do not have laptop just skip them. You can also skip other test cases (e.g. if you do not have enough time). In this case just leave the columns for skipped test cases blank. Please note that your report will be still valuable even if you do not finish all test cases. The procedure:

Run test cases bellow.
Report results to the result table.

Prepare your system

If you are using our PM Test Day LiveCD, please skip the following steps, because everything is already prepared for you.

Install the public key (in case you would like to verify the PM Test Day support package, otherwise you can skip this step because the public key will be installed automatically with the PM Test Day support package in the next step):
```
# rpm --import http://jskarvad.fedorapeople.org/RPM-GPG-KEY-pm-test-day
```
Install the PM Test Day support package by:
- For 64 bit:
```
# yum install http://jskarvad.fedorapeople.org/pm-test-day-repo/pm-test-day-1-2.fc15.x86_64.rpm
```
- For 32 bit:
```
# yum install http://jskarvad.fedorapeople.org/pm-test-day-repo/pm-test-day-1-2.fc15.i686.rpm
```
- This procedure will also install the public key which will be then used for verification of packages from the PM Test Day repo.

Finally make sure you have all current updates (and temporal fixes) installed by:

# yum update

Test Cases

Testcase	Description	Target	Approx. time required
pm-suspend	Tests suspend / resume via pm-utils.	All	2 minutes
pm-hibernate	Tests hibernate / resume via pm-utils.	All	5 minutes
pm-bugreport	Tests pm-utils bug-reporting functionality.	All	2 minutes
pm-powersave	Tests detection of AC / battery (upower functionality) and pm-powersave reactions to power source changes (pm-utils).	Laptops only	2 minutes
Lid close	Tests system reaction to lid close.	Laptops only	2 minutes
Backlight control	Tests LCD backlight control.	Laptops only	1 minute
PowerTOP 2.x basic	Tests PowerTOP 2.x basic functionality and UI consistency.	All	5 minutes
PowerTOP 2.x PE engine	Tests PowerTOP 2.x power estimation engine.	Laptops only	60 minutes
PowerTOP 2.x suggestions	Tests PowerTOP 2.x tunables.	All	5 minutes
Tuned basic	Tests tuned-adm (tuned) basic functionality.	All	5 minutes
Tuned psave idle	Measures energy consumption of machine in active idle with tuned laptop-battery-powersave profile.	Laptops only	15 minutes
Tuned psave load	Measures test duration / energy consumption of machine under load with tuned laptop-battery-powersave profile.	All, laptops preferred	5 - 30 minutes
Tuned perf idle	Measures energy consumption of machine in active idle with tuned throughput-performance profile.	Laptops only	15 minutes
Tuned perf load	Measures test duration / energy consumption of machine under load with tuned throughput-performance profile.	All, laptops preferred	5 - 30 minutes

Known Bugs

Already fixed

If you update your system from the PM Test Day repo or PM Test Day LiveCD, you shouldn't encounter the following bugs:

RHBZ #684854 - It is about missing tab bar in PowerTOP 2.x.
RHBZ #663995 - It is about SELinux AVCs during suspend / hibernate.
RHBZ #689113 - It is about AVC on EEEPCs when laptop-battery-powersave profile is in use (write access to cpufv).

Currently unfixed

You can still encounter the following bugs:

RHBZ #690177 - It is about the tuned profiles switching and tuned starting/restarting - it can take "forever".
- Currently there is no known workaround, probably something related to the systemd.
AC ONLINE / BATTERY OSD notifications are not shown when booted from the LiveCD.
- It is the LiveCD test case problem, workaround:
```
# xhost +; sed -i 's|^#!/bin/bash$|\0\n\nexport DISPLAY=:0|' /usr/bin/pmtd-osd
```
- Or substitue xosd command in pmtd_osd by logger command and check your logs instead of OSD.
The PM Test Day Live CD doesn't seem to support resume from hibernate using the swap that is located on the LVM.
- You need to use swap partition outside the LVM or F15 installed on your harddrive.

Test Results

If you have problems with any of the tests, report a bug to Bugzilla usually for the component pm-utils, or powertop, or tuned. If you are unsure about exactly how to file the report or what other information to include, just ask on IRC and we will help you. Once you have completed the tests, add your results to the Results table below, following the example results from the first line as a template. The first column should be your name with a link to your User page in the Wiki if you have one, and the second should be a link to the Smolt profile of the system you tested. For each test case, use the result template to enter your result, as shown in the example result line. bugreport.txt will be generated by test case pm-bugreport, instructions for uploading are included in this test case. The bugreport.txt gives us valuable information about your HW / SW configuration and debug log of your last suspend / hibernate process. If you ran the tuned profile tests, please write the results to the second table.

Please note there are two tables.

User	Smolt Profile	pm- suspend	pm- hibernate	pm- bugreport	pm- powersave	Lid close	Backlight control	PowerTOP 2.x basic	PowerTOP 2.x PE engine	PowerTOP 2.x suggest.	Tuned basic	References
Sample User	Sample Machine	pass	pass	bugreport warn ^[1]	pass	warn ^[2]	pass	fail ^[3]	pass	none	pass	↑ Got report but also encountered RHBZ #54320 ↑ Test pass, but also encountered RHBZ #54321 ↑ RHBZ #12345
Jan Scotka	Thinkpad lenovo T61	pass	pass	pass bugreport	warn PASS, but with docking station with dualscreen aren't working correctly. Not problem with test or component itself	fail no differences, when lid closed, after 90 sec nothing happen	pass	warn in tunables tab, when terminal is smaller than line count isn't able to list records what are out of terminal	pass no pmtd-pm-* bin aviable	warn not all of items are changable, USB mouse after autosuspend isn't waked up	warn switching of profile waiting forever
Albert Pool	HW	pass		pass bugreport	pass	pass	pass	pass	fail	pass	fail ^[1]	↑ Fails to start/stop ktune
pfps	Thinkpad T60p	pass	pass	[1]	warn ^[1]	pass ^[2]	pass ^[3]	pass	pass	warn ^[4]	warn ^[5]	↑ Battery icon changes correctly, and a notification appears, but the "BATTERY"/"AC LINE" doesn't appear. ↑ Now how can I get lid-close to not suspend? ↑ The brightness-change OSD is ugly! ↑ Can change everything except "Wireless Power Saving for interface wlan0. This may be a well-known issue. ↑ RHBZ #690194 - Probably what Albertpool is seeing
Tao Wu	HW	pass	pass	pass bugreport				pass		pass	fail ^[1]	↑ Fails to stop ktune RHBZ #690177
Radek Vokal	Dell d620 with NVidia	pass		pass bugreport	pass ^[1]	pass ^[2]	pass	warn ^[3]	pass		fail ^[4]	↑ The ACLINE popup doesn't show up ↑ got SELinux AVC denial on /usr/sbin/wpa_suplicant. RHBZ #684415 ↑ in standard 80 column terminal Tunables tab name doesn't show up correctly. Also I'm missing peak numbers in red like in powertop 1.0 ↑ takes forever (~5min) to start/stop ktune
Hurry	HP xw9400 with Nvidia HW	pass	pass	pass	N/A	N/A	N/A	pass	N/A	pass	fail ^[1]	↑ RHBZ #690177
Jan Vcelak	Dell Latitude E6510	in progress	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?
SrinivasG	[Dell PowerEdge R710]	fail [2]	warn Pass, but network links were down after system resumed from Hibernation	pass [3]	?	?	?	fail [4]	?	pass	?
klic	[5]	pass	fail Kernel panic, see RHBZ 603897	pass [6]	fail nothing happened, also test command was not executed	pass	pass	pass	pass	pass	warn while deactivating profile, ktuned could not be stopped
Honza Horak	T510	pass	pass	none	pass	warn ^[1]	pass	warn ^[2]	pass	pass	fail ^[3]	↑ Works when on battery, but fails when on docking station (it does nothing when lid is closed and it switches monitor resolution when lid is opened) ↑ in tunables tab, when terminal is smaller than line count isn't able to list records what are out of terminal ↑ RHBZ #690177
Jan Görig	HW	fail ^[1]	pass	pass [7]	none	none	none	warn ^[2]	none	pass	fail [8]	↑ suspend works but system is non-responding on wake up ↑ in tunables tab, when terminal is smaller than line count isn't able to list records what are out of terminal
Jared Smith	Lenovo Thinkpad T510	pass	none Not enough swap	pass File:Pm-test-day-20110324-pub 8220e84e-362c-4148-8f4c-de0bec177025.txt	pass	none	none	none	none	none	none
Michal Nowak	Lenovo Thinkpad T510	pass	pass	pass	pass	pass	pass	pass	pass	pass	warn tuned takes a long time to terminate
Michael Dempsey	HP Compaq 6910p	pass	pass	bugreport pass	pass	pass	pass	pass	pass	pass	warn tuned terminates after a long while
Dan Scott	Lenovo T400	warn ^[1]	fail ^[2]	N/A ^[3]	N/A	warn ^[4]	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	↑ suspend worked, resume mostly worked but CD could no longer be read (many SQUASHFS errors) making further efforts fruitless ↑ hibernate was fine, but resume resulted in a kernel panic. mem = 3054624, swap = 5119996, so perhaps a factor? ↑ inability to read CD after resume made it impossible to upload a file that included the pm bugreport ↑ suspended successfully with power plugged in, but when I subsequently closed the lid while running on battery, the laptop did not suspend - inability to read CD after initial resume suspected culprit
Gianluca Sforna	Toshiba Tecra S5	pass	pass	bugreport pass	pass	pass	pass	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
Łukasz Wojniłowicz	Acer Aspire 5930G	pass	fail ^[1]	bugreport pass	pass	pass	pass	pass	pass	pass ^[2]	fail ^[3]	↑ RHBZ #690601 ↑ When I set "SATA link pm[...]" , "NMI watchdog[...]" , "VM writeback timeout" , "Audio codec pm" to Good, exit powertop and start it again then I cannot revert mentioned Tunables to Bad ↑ RHBZ #690194 - Probably what Albertpool is seeing
Wolfgang Pirker	HW	fail ^[1]	pass	bugreport pass				pass ^[2]		pass	warn ^[3]	↑ After wake-up a black screen with cursor appeared ↑ message "Cannot load from file /var/.../saved_parameters.powertab" appeared after exit ↑ after switching to throughput-performance profile ktune didn't start or stop correctly, first 2 tested profiles worked
Iván	Dell mini 1012	warn ^[1]	warn ^[2]			warn ^[3]	pass	fail ^[4]	pass	pass	fail ^[5]	↑ RHBZ #663993 ↑ RHBZ #684415 ↑ RHBZ #684415 ↑ RHBZ #684854 ↑ RHBZ #690177
Erik	Acer Aspire 1693 Wlmi	fail ^[1]	fail ^[2]	bugreport pass	pass	fail ^[3]	warn ^[4]	pass	pass	pass	pass ^[5]	↑ After wake-up the screen remains black, but it seems to work as i can hear system sounds and see drive activities when i type around on the keyboard ↑ The systems reboots immediatly after going down, but restores the saved state correctly. ↑ same proplem as with suspend ↑ The backlight changes correctly and the gnome(?) osd apears, but the bar which indicates the brightness does not move ↑ Restarting of ktune didn't work correctly from the third profile change on.
kparal	HW	pass	fail ^[1]	pass bugreport	warn ^[2]	pass	pass	pass	none	warn ^[3]	fail ^[4]	↑ System hibernates, but then in boots just like normal (no resume). Swap on LVM, system installed on harddrive. ↑ No notification about AC line connected is shown ↑ Many tunables can't be reverted back to "bad" after powertop restart. ↑ Profile switching takes forever
Luigi Votta	HW	warn ^[1]	fail ^[2]	pass bugreport				pass		inprogress	inprogress	↑ System wakes-up but the session is freezed ↑ RHBZ #691117 Grub deletion; needed grub-install /dev/sdx; Idem [1]
David Kowis	Lenovo ThinkPad x200s	warn ^[1]		pass bugreport	pass	warn ^[2]	pass	pass	pass	pass	warn ^[3]	↑ It will successfully suspend once, subsequent suspends fail with in dmesg: `legacy_suspend(): pnp_bus_suspend+0x0/0x6a returns 28 PM: Device 00:0a failed to suspend: error 28` ↑ Same issue as pm-suspend only works once. Otherwise, works great. ↑ Stopping ktune takes forever, as noted.
Luke Hutchison	Toshiba Satellite Pro S300M-S2142^[1]	pass	^[2]	pm-bugreport	pass	fail ^[3]	fail ^[4]	warn ^[5]	warn ^[6]	pass	fail ^[7]	↑ NOTE: in general this laptop is unable to shutdown or reboot from the commandline. "poweroff" or "shutdown" goes all the way through the shutdown process but at the final step when it says it is powering down, it just sits there with the cursor blinking. ↑ Tried F14 swap on HDD with F15 PM live USB, didn't resume, I suspect I cannot test this. ↑ Laptop suspended on lid close and resumed on lid open. However: (1) If the VGA-out was plugged into an external monitor when the lid was closed, the laptop did not suspend. (I expect this is by design.) But if the laptop had been booted with VGA plugged in, then if I pull out the VGA cable and then wait a few seconds and shut the lid then wait and open it again, on resume the laptop's screen is blank. I can't bring it back with Fn+F5 which is the normal video pipe switch key combination. I have to manually plug the VGA adapter back in (laptop panel stays black) and then when I go Fn+F5 I can cycle through the various pipe modes and get the laptop screen back again. (2) The keyboard layout (manually set with setxkbmap) was not restored correctly on resume. (3) I got an AVC denial on wpa_supplicant on resume, RHBZ #684415 ↑ Pressing Fn+F6/F7 to adjust laptop panel brightness pops up the OSD but does not change the brightness setting if the laptop was booted with an external monitor plugged into the VGA port, even if the plug is later removed. (If I boot without an external monitor connected then it works fine.) If I booted with an external monitor plugged in, powertop reports the panel power setting at the same percentage as the OSD displays, but the brightness never visibly changes. Booting with an external monitor plugged in seems to permanently disable the brightness controls until reboot. [Also, this is probably not the right place to report this, but if I keep tapping Fn+F6/F7 quickly, the GNOME widget seems to lose keypress events (it can only handle them at a certain rate, and takes maybe 100ms to respond to each press), which makes the widget response feel sluggish and sloppy..] ↑ In Tunables tab, if you keep hitting the down arrow key, then the cursor goes off the bottom but it doesn't scroll the display to show the further entries on the list. Also what on earth does "Bad" and "Good" mean? ↑ Running gnome-control-center power says: "Error getting primary device: GDBus.Error:org.gnome.PowerManager.Failed: There is no primary device to reflect system state (don't show any UI)". However powertop --calibrate seems to run to completion fine. It couldn't set the backlight during calibration because I had an external monitor connected earlier as specified above. A bigger problem though is that plugging in power again after the calibration process (I think -- or maybe the calibration process itself?) managed to shut down the USB ports and I had to unplug and re-plug the mouse to get it working. Is this expected? ↑ "tuned-adm laptop-battery-powersave" worked. "tuned-adm spindown-disk" hangs on "Stopping ktune (via systemctl)". I waited a minute, hit Ctrl-C, and it said "Stopping ktune (via systemctl)" again but this time said "[OK]" then "Switching to profile 'spindown-disk'" and then hung on "Starting ktune (via systemctl)". After Ctrl-C I heard my speaker click and it hung again on "Starting ktune (via systemctl)". Waiting another minute and pressin Ctrl-C again drops me back to the command prompt. (Actually it looks like trying any parameter after the first call to tuned-adm results in the same behavior, i.e. it works once only.)
Tomin	Asus A8Js 1.0	pass ^[1]	pass	pass ^[2]	pass	pass ^[3]	fail ^[4]	pass	pass	warn ^[5]	fail ^[6]	↑ There is something wrong with nouveau. Speed slows down after suspend (e.g. windows move slowly/laggy) ↑ Pm-test-day-20110324-*.txt ↑ At first it told that I had charge for 10 hours but that isn't true. Later it told me that I've got about 1,5 h which is most likely correct ↑ Didn't work. Fn+F5/6 didn't do a thing, but works in Ubuntu (has been working for a long time) ↑ List didn't scroll and Wireless card couldn't be tuned. ↑ Didn't work. Ktune didn't want to stop.
Jaroslav Škarvada	Asus EEEPC 1000H	pass	pass	bugreport pass	pass	pass	pass	pass	pass	warn ^[1]^[2]	fail ^[3]	↑ Some tunables can not be changed back to BAD: NMI watchdog, VM writeback, Audio Codec power management. ↑ Some tunables are out of screen and not visible. There is no scrollbar. ↑ After the first profile switch further profile switches (or tuned-adm off) take very long time.
Jaroslav Škarvada	Lenovo ThinkPad T500	fail ^[1]	pass	bugreport pass	pass	inprogress	pass	pass	inprogress	warn ^[2]	fail ^[3]	↑ It suspends fine but after the resume there are a lot of SQUASHFS errors and the system starts behaving strangely, e.g. a lot of input/output errors. ↑ Some tunables can not be changed back to BAD: SATA Link PM, NMI watchdog, Power aware CPU scheduler, VM writeback, Audio Codec power management, Wake On LAN status on interfaces, ondemand cpufreq governor. ↑ After the first profile switch further profile switches (or tuned-adm off) take very long time.
User	Smolt Profile	pm- suspend	pm- hibernate	pm- bugreport	pm- powersave	Lid close	Backlight control	PowerTOP 2.x basic	PowerTOP 2.x PE engine	PowerTOP 2.x suggest.	Tuned basic	References

If you ran the tuned profile tests, please write these results to the table bellow.

User	Machine	Tuned psave idle	Tuned psave load	Tuned perf idle	Tuned perf load	References
Sample User	Sample Machine	E:2300 mWh	T:320 / E:3000 mWh	E:2200 mWh	T:300 / E:3200 mWh warn ^[1]	↑ Got results but also encountered RHBZ #54322
Jan Scotka	Thinkpad lenovo T61
Albert Pool	HW	fail	fail	fail	fail	Tuned was able to set a profile once, but after that the ktune service refused to start/stop
pfps	Thinkpad T60p	E:4640 mWh	T:2693.01 / E:19430 mWh	E:4800 mWh	T:2908.44 / E:21400 mWh
Radek Vokal	Dell d620 with NVidia	pass E:409 mAh	pass T:347.79 / E:304 mAh	pass E:442 mAh	none
klic	[9]	fail script looked for BAT0, system says BAT1	fail	fail	fail
kparal	HW	pass E:4160 mWh	pass T:258.57 / E:3270 mWh	fail ^[1]	fail ^[2]	↑ Can't switch to throughput-performance profile, switching hangs ↑ Can't switch to throughput-performance profile, switching hangs
Łukasz Wojniłowicz	Acer Aspire 5930G	pass E:474 mAh	pass T:218.09 / E:201 mAh	pass E:531 mAh	pass T:214.14 / E:213 mAh
User	Machine	Tuned psave idle	Tuned psave load	Tuned perf idle	Tuned perf load	References

[1] Got report but also encountered RHBZ #54320

[2] Test pass, but also encountered RHBZ #54321

[3] RHBZ #12345

[4] Fails to start/stop ktune

[5] Battery icon changes correctly, and a notification appears, but the "BATTERY"/"AC LINE" doesn't appear.

[6] Now how can I get lid-close to *not* suspend?

[7] The brightness-change OSD is *ugly*!

[8] Can change everything except "Wireless Power Saving for interface wlan0. This may be a well-known issue.

[9] RHBZ #690194 - Probably what Albertpool is seeing

[10] Fails to stop ktune RHBZ #690177

[11] The ACLINE popup doesn't show up

[12] t SELinux AVC denial on /usr/sbin/wpa_suplicant. RHBZ #684415

[13] standard 80 column terminal Tunables tab name doesn't show up correctly. Also I'm missing peak numbers in red like in powertop 1.0

[14] takes forever (~5min) to start/stop ktune

[bz690177-15] RHBZ #690177

[16] Works when on battery, but fails when on docking station (it does nothing when lid is closed and it switches monitor resolution when lid is opened)

[17] tunables tab, when terminal is smaller than line count isn't able to list records what are out of terminal

[18] RHBZ #690177

[19] suspend works but system is non-responding on wake up

[20] tunables tab, when terminal is smaller than line count isn't able to list records what are out of terminal

[21] suspend worked, resume mostly worked but CD could no longer be read (many SQUASHFS errors) making further efforts fruitless

[22] rnate was fine, but resume resulted in a kernel panic. mem = 3054624, swap = 5119996, so perhaps a factor?

[23] ty to read CD after resume made it impossible to upload a file that included the pm bugreport

[24] suspended successfully with power plugged in, but when I subsequently closed the lid while running on battery, the laptop did not suspend - inability to read CD after initial resume suspected culprit

[25] RHBZ #690601

[26] When I set "SATA link pm[...]" , "NMI watchdog[...]" , "VM writeback timeout" , "Audio codec pm" to Good, exit powertop and start it again then I cannot revert mentioned Tunables to Bad

[27] RHBZ #690194 - Probably what Albertpool is seeing

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