Re: 3.12: kernel panic when resuming from suspend to RAM (x86_64)

Rafael J. Wysocki
2013-11-22T12:41:58Z

On Friday, November 22, 2013 10:57:25 AM Francis Moreau wrote:
> Le 22/11/2013 08:43, Francis Moreau a écrit :
> > Le 21/11/2013 12:17, Jingoo Han a écrit :
> > [...]
> >>>
> >>>> Also I took a look at the changes between v3.11 and v3.12 in this area
> >>>> and those changes match the issue I'm facing:
> >>>>
> >>>> $ git log --oneline v3.11..v3.12 -- drivers/mfd/rtsx_pcr.c
> >>>> 09fd867 mfd: rtsx: Copyright modifications
> >>>> eb891c6 mfd: rtsx: Configure to enter a deeper power-saving mode in S3
> >>>> 7140812 mfd: rtsx: Move some actions from rtsx_pci_init_hw to individual
> >>>> extra_init_hw
> >>>> 5947c16 mfd: rtsx: Add shutdown callback in rtsx_pci_driver
> >>>> 773ccdf mfd: rtsx: Read vendor setting from config space
> >>
> >> In my opinion, rtsx_pci_resume()/rtsx_pci_suspend() in realtek PCIe card
> >> reader driver may make the kernel panic.
> >>
> >> I think that the commit "mfd: rtsx: Configure to enter a deeper
> >> power-saving mode in S3" may be the culprit.
> >
> > Unfortunately no, reverting this commit on top of v3.12 doesn't help. I
> > also reverted 7140812, 5947c16 but it didn't improve anything.
> >
> > The good news is that I managed to have a "light" kernel configuration
> > which is faster to build and more important it seems that the bug is
> > almost 100% reproductible now.
> >
> > So I'll try to do another git-bisect session later.
>
> So after bisecting between v3.11..v3.12 range, git bisect told me:
>
> the first bad commit is 551f5c74e17ba9257cdc35bf657ee448cad2d5b0
>
> Merge branch 'acpi-processor'
>
> * acpi-processor:
> ACPI / processor: Acquire writer lock to update CPU maps
> ACPI / processor: Remove acpi_processor_get_limit_info()
>
> The two commits brought by the merge are not the culprits because
> reseting HEAD on "ACPI / processor: Acquire writer lock to update CPU
> maps" doesn't have the issue anymore.
>
> At that point I'm not sure how to bisect futher.

Does the second parent of this merge (that is, 8462d9df9d50) have the problem?

Rafael