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

Francis Moreau
2013-11-20T09:44:38Z

Hello Borislav,

On 11/19/2013 11:15 AM, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 11:01:14AM +0100, Francis Moreau wrote:
>> I think the easiest way to do it is to install a minimal system on a
>> USB stick and try to reproduce first in order to preserve my system.
>
> Yep, sounds simple enough.
>
>> Then I'll try to see if this issue exists in a previous kernel version
>> and if so, I'll do a git-bisect session.
>>
>> I can't find a quicker way to do that although using git-bisect (which
>> implies several kernel builds) is a PITA.
>
> You can start with a coarse bisect by testing the major kernel versions
> first, i.e. 3.11, 3.10, 3.9 ... and once you find good and bad, then you
> can do the git-bisect thing.
>

Unfortunately the bisect session didn't give any positive results: I
couldn't be sure if a specific revision was good or bad because the bug
wasn't reproductible every time.

But I got a different kernel oops on my stripped system that may give us
a clue: http://imgur.com/zdCknbY

Does this help ?

Thanks.