Message-ID: <20190823103654.GX13294@shell.armlinux.org.uk>
Date:   Fri, 23 Aug 2019 11:36:54 +0100
From:   Russell King - ARM Linux admin <linux@...linux.org.uk>
To:     Chris Clayton <chris2553@...glemail.com>
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Subject: Re: Regression in 5.3-rc1 and later

Hi,

To everyone on the long Cc list...

What's happening with this?  I was about to merge the patches for 32-bit
ARM, which I don't want to do if doing so will cause this regression on
32-bit ARM as well.

Thanks.

On Thu, Aug 22, 2019 at 07:57:59AM +0100, Chris Clayton wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> Firstly, apologies to anyone on the long cc list that turns out not to be particularly interested in the following, but
> you were all marked as cc'd in the commit message below.
> 
> I've found a problem that isn't present in 5.2 series or 4.19 series kernels, and seems to have arrived in 5.3-rc1. The
> problem is that if I suspend (to ram) my laptop, on resume 14 minutes or more after suspending, I have no networking
> functionality. If I resume the laptop after 13 minutes or less, networking works fine. I haven't tried to get finer
> grained timings between 13 and 14 minutes, but can do if it would help.
> 
> ifconfig shows that wlan0 is still up and still has its assigned ip address but, for instance, a ping of any other
> device on my network, fails as does pinging, say, kernel.org. I've tried "downing" the network with (/sbin/ifdown) and
> unloading the iwlmvm module and then reloading the module and "upping" (/sbin/ifup) the network, but my network is still
> unusable. I should add that the problem also manifests if I hibernate the laptop, although my testing of this has been
> minimal. I can do more if required.
> 
> As I say, the problem first appears in 5.3-rc1, so I've bisected between 5.2.0 and 5.3-rc1 and that concluded with:
> 
> [chris:~/kernel/linux]$ git bisect good
> 7ac8707479886c75f353bfb6a8273f423cfccb23 is the first bad commit
> commit 7ac8707479886c75f353bfb6a8273f423cfccb23
> Author: Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@....com>
> Date:   Fri Jun 21 10:52:49 2019 +0100
> 
>     x86/vdso: Switch to generic vDSO implementation
> 
>     The x86 vDSO library requires some adaptations to take advantage of the
>     newly introduced generic vDSO library.
> 
>     Introduce the following changes:
>      - Modification of vdso.c to be compliant with the common vdso datapage
>      - Use of lib/vdso for gettimeofday
> 
>     [ tglx: Massaged changelog and cleaned up the function signature formatting ]
> 
>     Signed-off-by: Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@....com>
>     Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
>     Cc: linux-arch@...r.kernel.org
>     Cc: linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org
>     Cc: linux-mips@...r.kernel.org
>     Cc: linux-kselftest@...r.kernel.org
>     Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>
>     Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>
>     Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
>     Cc: Russell King <linux@...linux.org.uk>
>     Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@...ux-mips.org>
>     Cc: Paul Burton <paul.burton@...s.com>
>     Cc: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@...aro.org>
>     Cc: Mark Salyzyn <salyzyn@...roid.com>
>     Cc: Peter Collingbourne <pcc@...gle.com>
>     Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@...nel.org>
>     Cc: Dmitry Safonov <0x7f454c46@...il.com>
>     Cc: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@...musvillemoes.dk>
>     Cc: Huw Davies <huw@...eweavers.com>
>     Cc: Shijith Thotton <sthotton@...vell.com>
>     Cc: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@....com>
>     Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190621095252.32307-23-vincenzo.frascino@arm.com
> 
>  arch/x86/Kconfig                         |   3 +
>  arch/x86/entry/vdso/Makefile             |   9 ++
>  arch/x86/entry/vdso/vclock_gettime.c     | 245 ++++---------------------------
>  arch/x86/entry/vdso/vdsox32.lds.S        |   1 +
>  arch/x86/entry/vsyscall/Makefile         |   2 -
>  arch/x86/entry/vsyscall/vsyscall_gtod.c  |  83 -----------
>  arch/x86/include/asm/pvclock.h           |   2 +-
>  arch/x86/include/asm/vdso/gettimeofday.h | 191 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  arch/x86/include/asm/vdso/vsyscall.h     |  44 ++++++
>  arch/x86/include/asm/vgtod.h             |  75 +---------
>  arch/x86/include/asm/vvar.h              |   7 +-
>  arch/x86/kernel/pvclock.c                |   1 +
>  12 files changed, 284 insertions(+), 379 deletions(-)
>  delete mode 100644 arch/x86/entry/vsyscall/vsyscall_gtod.c
>  create mode 100644 arch/x86/include/asm/vdso/gettimeofday.h
>  create mode 100644 arch/x86/include/asm/vdso/vsyscall.h
> 
> To confirm my bisection was correct, I did a git checkout of 7ac8707479886c75f353bfb6a8273f423cfccb2. As expected, the
> kernel exhibited the problem I've described. However, a kernel built at the immediately preceding (parent?) commit
> (bfe801ebe84f42b4666d3f0adde90f504d56e35b) has a working network after a (>= 14minute) suspend/resume cycle.
> 
> As the module name implies, I'm using wireless networking. The hardware is detected as "Intel(R) Wireless-AC 9260
> 160MHz, REV=0x324" by iwlwifi.
> 
> I'm more than happy to provide additional diagnostics (but may need a little hand-holding) and to apply diagnostic or
> fix patches, but please cc me on any reply as I'm not subscribed to any of the kernel-related mailing lists.
> 
> Chris
> 
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