From: Linus Torvalds The all-ones value is not just a "device didn't exist" case, it's also potentially a quite valid value, so not restoring it would be wrong. What *would* be interesting is to hear where the bad values came from in the first place. It sounds like the device state is saved after the PCI bus controller in front of the device has been crapped on, resulting in the PCI config cycles never reaching the device at all. Something along this patch (together with suspend/resume debugging output) migth help pinpoint it. But it really sounds like something totally brokenly turned off the PCI bridge (some ACPI shutdown crud? I wouldn't be entirely surprised) Cc: Greg KH Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- drivers/pci/pci.c | 9 +++++++++ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+) diff -puN drivers/pci/pci.c~workaround-for-a-pci-restoring-bug drivers/pci/pci.c --- a/drivers/pci/pci.c~workaround-for-a-pci-restoring-bug +++ a/drivers/pci/pci.c @@ -636,6 +636,15 @@ int pci_save_state(struct pci_dev *dev) { int i; + u32 val; + + /* Unable to read PCI device/manufacturer state? Something is seriously wrong! */ + if (pci_read_config_dword(dev, 0, &val) || val == 0xffffffff) { + printk("Broken read from PCI device %s\n", pci_name(dev)); + WARN_ON(1); + return -1; + } + /* XXX: 100% dword access ok here? */ for (i = 0; i < 16; i++) pci_read_config_dword(dev, i * 4,&dev->saved_config_space[i]); _