Control: severity -1 serious
Control: tags -1 + upstream fixed-upstream
Control: forwarded -1 
https://lore.kernel.org/regressions/zd2bsv8vsfjml...@archie.me/ 
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=218531
Control: found -1 6.6.15-1
Control: found -1 6.7.4-1~exp1

Hi Lee,

On Sat, Mar 02, 2024 at 05:33:55PM +0000, Lee Elliott wrote:
> Package: src:linux
> Version: 6.1.76-1
> Severity: critical
> Justification: breaks the whole system
> X-Debbugs-Cc: leeejobsacco...@mail.co.uk
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
>    * What led up to the situation?
> 
>    Trying to boot the system with the 6.1.0-18 kernel
> 
>    * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
>      ineffective)?
> 
>    I tried adding 'boot_delay=1000' boot option to slow the console
>    scroll rate, to enable better recording of the error messages.
> 
>    I tried rebooting the previous 6.1.0-17 kernel.
> 
>    * What was the outcome of this action?
> 
>    After adding the 'boot_delay=1000' option the boot process
>    progressed no further than "Loading initial ramdisk ..."
>    (left for several minutes - required power cycle).
> 
>    The system boots sucessfully on the previous 6.1.0-17 kernel
> 
>    * What outcome did you expect instead?
> 
>    I expected the system to successfully boot.
> 
>    * Additional observations
> 
>    This system also normally includes 'hpet=disable' and
>    'acpi_enforce_resources=lax' boot options but removing these
>    made no difference.
> 
>    Although I was not able to boot the system with the
>    'boot_delay=1000' option and obtain clear photographs of the
>    console output - the ones I've attached suffer from
>    'overprinting' - it does seem clear that ACPI errors are
>    being reported.
> 
>    There appear to be two distinct phases to this problem.
>    Initially, ACPI seems to be reporting errors for "GPE", as
>    shown in the first attached photograph, but after ~10 seconds
>    or so, ACPI then switches to continuously reporting an error
>    for PM_TIMER, as shown in the second attached photograph. At
>    this point a power cycle is required.
> 
>    Purging and reinstalling the package made no difference. Atm,
>    only three kernels are installed on this system but I have
>    had more in the past as I normally compile my own kernels
>    from the corresponding Debian source package. My own 6.1.76-1
>    kernel also suffers from the same problem, whereas my own
>    6.1.69-1 kernel boots and runs Ok.
> 
>    Comparing the kernel configs for 6.1.0-17 and 6.1.0-18
>    showed just one functional change - an additional
>    Compile-time checks and compiler option, which did not seem
>    relevant to this problem.

The images were missing but from the description I assume it's the
same regression as reported in

https://lore.kernel.org/regressions/zd2bsv8vsfjml...@archie.me/
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=218531

It looks a fix has landed in mainline:

https://git.kernel.org/linus/aec7d25b497ce4a8d044e9496de0aa433f7f8f06

Regards,
Salvatore

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