Re: [REGRESSION][BISECTED] Boot stall from merge tag 'net-next-6.2'

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On Fri, May 26, 2023 at 07:17:26PM +0000, Sami Korkalainen wrote:
> Linux 6.2 and newer are (mostly) unbootable on my old HP 6730b laptop, the 6.1.30 works still fine.
> The weirdest thing is that newer kernels (like 6.3.4 and 6.4-rc3) may boot ok on the first try, but when rebooting, the very same version doesn't boot.
>        
> Some times, when trying to boot, I get this message repeated forever:
> ACPI Error: No handler or method for GPE [XX], disabling event (20221020/evgpe-839)
> On newer kernels, the date is 20230331 instead of 20221020. There is also some other error, but I can't read it as it gets overwritten by the other ACPI error, see image linked at the end.
> 
> And some times, the screen will just stay completely blank.
> 
> I tried booting with acpi=off, but it does not help.
>        
> I bisected and this is the first bad commit 7e68dd7d07a2
> "Merge tag 'net-next-6.2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next"

I think networking changes shouldn't cause this ACPI regression, right?

>        
> As the later kernels had the seemingly random booting behaviour (mentioned above), I retested the last good one 7c4a6309e27f by booting it several times and it boots every time.
> 
> I tried getting some boot logs, but the boot process does not go far enough to make any logs.
> 
> Kernel .config file: https://0x0.st/Hqt1.txt
>      
> Environment (outputs of a working Linux 6.1 build):
> Software (output of the ver_linux script): https://0x0.st/Hqte.txt
> Processor information (from /proc/cpuinfo): https://0x0.st/Hqt2.txt
> Module information (from /proc/modules): https://0x0.st/HqtL.txt
> /proc/ioports: https://0x0.st/Hqt9.txt
> /proc/iomem:   https://0x0.st/Hqtf.txt
> PCI information ('lspci -vvv' as root): https://0x0.st/HqtO.txt
> SCSI information (from /proc/scsi/scsi)

Where is SCSI info?

> 
> Attached devices:
> Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00
> Vendor: ATA      Model: KINGSTON SVP200S Rev: C4
> Type:   Direct-Access                    ANSI  SCSI revision: 05
> Host: scsi1 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00
> Vendor: hp       Model: CDDVDW TS-L633M  Rev: 0301
> Type:   CD-ROM                           ANSI  SCSI revision: 05
>        
> Distribution: Arch Linux
> Boot manager: systemd-boot (UEFI)
> 
> git bisect log: https://0x0.st/Hqgx.txt
> ACPI Error (sorry for the dusty screen): https://0x0.st/HqEk.jpeg
> 
> #regzbot ^introduced 7e68dd7d07a2
> 
> Best regards
> Sami Korkalainen

Anyway, I also Cc: netdev and acpi lists and maintainers (maybe they have
idea on what's going on here) and also fixing up regzbot entry title:

#regzbot title: Boot stall with ACPI error (no handler/method for GPE) caused by net-next 6.2 pull

Thanks.

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