linux-kernel - Re: 3.12: kernel panic when resuming from suspend to RAM (x86

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Date:	Wed, 20 Nov 2013 10:45:05 +0100
From:	Francis Moreau <francis.moro@...il.com>
To:	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
CC:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Subject: Re: 3.12: kernel panic when resuming from suspend to RAM (x86_64)

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.
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