[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1690085]

2019-03-25 Thread alfie
> No it hasn't - I'm still waiting for someone to test it and confirm that it > fixes the issue on their boxes. And by issue I don't mean erratum 1033 - > that is a red herring anyway - but the lockups people are reporting on some > broken BIOSes. Yes, your patch "seems" to work in my case.

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1690085]

2019-03-25 Thread alfie
Created attachment 281999 Add rifw kernel parameter to test a couple of patch to workaround ryzen freezes Add rifw kernel parameter. rifw=none - don't do anything rifw=alfie - ignore BIOS rifw=boris - use Borislav Petkov patch I works with kernels 4.19, 4.20 and 5.0.2 -- You received this bug

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1690085]

2019-03-21 Thread alfie
(In reply to Another User from comment #564) > Can your system reach turbo frequencies with this patch? > Maybe I understand something wrongly... Yes, I have a ryzen 1600 and I can see 1/2 cores running at ~3.6 GHz under some peculiar stress case. (In reply to Borislav Petkov from comment #565)

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1690085]

2019-03-20 Thread alfie
This is pretty strange, could someone explain it to me? Wasn't mwait bugged in ryzen? Tired of the random freezes, I tried this: --- ./arch/x86/kernel/acpi/cstate.c.orig 2018-10-22 08:37:37.0 +0200 +++ ./arch/x86/kernel/acpi/cstate.c2019-03-20 19:26:45.261101857 +0100 @@

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1690085]

2019-03-17 Thread alfie
The PSU problem sounds like a weak excuse from AMD or may they are talking about very very bad 10 dollars units. The BIOS options "typical/low current" doesn't seems to change the c-states set up by the kernel routines here. With any selection, I always end up with c0 POLL c1 ACPI HLT c2 ACPI

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1690085]

2019-03-12 Thread alfie
kernel 4.19.27 with rcu_nocbs=0-11 idle=halt nopti, yesterday at around 11:30 p.m. I had an "usual" total lookup of the system during light usage (I just had an ssh session opened). With idle=halt, I get no "ACPM WAIT C-state bug" line in dmesg. The problem with this freeze problem is that is

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1690085]

2019-03-11 Thread alfie
Here (Asus CrossHair VI, 1600, gentoo with any kernel around), no suggested workaround works. The system freezes when in very light use and I was never able to obtain a single line of debug via serial (I put a small linux mini itx box near this computer just to receive the serial log). It seems