Re: BUG: kernel panic on Dell Vostro 3560 when plugging in AC adapter

Borislav Petkov
2013-01-10T11:35:22Z

On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 11:59:48AM +0100, Adrian Byszuk wrote:
> I think I won't get the answer this way. Bisecting between
> 3.7 and 3.8-rc2 (from linus tree) led me to commit
> 63e1ed2364050073770c085021377d7764969b85 titled "Update vt8500 PWM
> driver support", which I think is rather nonsense. Also, depending on
> bisected version, sometimes I got kernel panic, but sometimes (more
> often) whole system would just freeze completely.
>
> Any other way diagnose this bug?

Hmm, bisection can sometimes lead us in the fields, nasty.

Well, you could try bisecting the major releases in between. I.e., test
3.8-rc1, and then test vanilla 3.7.

For example, if you still trigger it with -rc1, then no need to bisect
the -rc2..-rc1 range. If you still trigger it with 3.7 then not good -
in that case you'd need to go further back in time.

The best would be if you don't trigger it with 3.7 but trigger it with
3.7.1 :) Then it is easy.

Also, git bisect skip can skip ranges of commits. You could try that too
but you need to visialize how exactly the tree structure is and I admit,
I haven't figured out the details of that yet but Linus has explained
this approach a couple of times, you might want to take a look at this
http://www.yarchive.net/comp/linux/git_bisect.html or search the net for
even better ideas.

Also, you said "with 3.8.0-rc2 it looks like it's working correctly -
I've tried the unplug/plug sequence more than 5 times and it seems to
work fine."

Please test that again and repeat that sequence say 15-20 times, to
make sure that -rc2 is really ok and not something changed timing and
this bug is being only brown-paper-baggy-covered now. I mean, I'm just
guessing - you're in front of the machine, you know best what to do to
trigger the bug reliably.

HTH.

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Boris.

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