linux-kernel - Re: Regression from "ACPI: OSI: Remove Linux-Dell-Video _OSI string"? (was: Re: Bug#1036530: linux-signed-amd64: Hard lock up of system)

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Date:   Sun, 28 May 2023 20:14:28 -0500
From:   Mario Limonciello <mario.limonciello@....com>
To:     Nick Hastings <nicholaschastings@...il.com>
Cc:     Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@...ian.org>, 1036530@...s.debian.org,
        "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@...nel.org>,
        Len Brown <lenb@...nel.org>, linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, regressions@...ts.linux.dev
Subject: Re: Regression from "ACPI: OSI: Remove Linux-Dell-Video _OSI string"?
 (was: Re: Bug#1036530: linux-signed-amd64: Hard lock up of system)

On 5/28/23 19:56, Nick Hastings wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> * Mario Limonciello <mario.limonciello@....com> [230528 21:44]:
>> On 5/28/23 01:49, Salvatore Bonaccorso wrote:
>>> Hi Mario
>>>
>>> Nick Hastings reported in Debian in https://bugs.debian.org/1036530
>>> lockups from his system after updating from a 6.0 based version to
>>> 6.1.y. >
>>> #regzbot ^introduced 24867516f06d
>>>
>>> he bisected the issue and tracked it down to:
>>>
>>> On Sun, May 28, 2023 at 10:14:51AM +0900, Nick Hastings wrote:
>>>> Control: tags -1 - moreinfo
>>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I repeated the git bisect, and the bad commit seems to be:
>>>>
>>>> (git)-[v6.1-rc1~206^2~4^5~3|bisect] % git bisect bad
>>>> 24867516f06dabedef3be7eea0ef0846b91538bc is the first bad commit
>>>> commit 24867516f06dabedef3be7eea0ef0846b91538bc
>>>> Author: Mario Limonciello <mario.limonciello@....com>
>>>> Date:   Tue Aug 23 13:51:31 2022 -0500
>>>>
>>>>       ACPI: OSI: Remove Linux-Dell-Video _OSI string
>>>>       This string was introduced because drivers for NVIDIA hardware
>>>>       had bugs supporting RTD3 in the past.
>>>>       Before proprietary NVIDIA driver started to support RTD3, Ubuntu had
>>>>       had a mechanism for switching PRIME on and off, though it had required
>>>>       to logout/login to make the library switch happen.
>>>>       When the PRIME had been off, the mechanism had unloaded the NVIDIA
>>>>       driver and put the device into D3cold, but the GPU had never come back
>>>>       to D0 again which is why ODMs used the _OSI to expose an old _DSM
>>>>       method to switch the power on/off.
>>>>       That has been fixed by commit 5775b843a619 ("PCI: Restore config space
>>>>       on runtime resume despite being unbound"). so vendors shouldn't be
>>>>       using this string to modify ASL any more.
>>>>       Reviewed-by: Lyude Paul <lyude@...hat.com>
>>>>       Signed-off-by: Mario Limonciello <mario.limonciello@....com>
>>>>       Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@...el.com>
>>>>
>>>>    drivers/acpi/osi.c | 9 ---------
>>>>    1 file changed, 9 deletions(-)
>>>>
>>>> This machine is a Dell with an nvidia chip so it looks like this really
>>>> could be the commit that that is causing the problems. The description
>>>> of the commit also seems (to my untrained eye) to be consistent with the
>>>> error reported on the console when the lockup occurs:
>>>>
>>>> [   58.729863] ACPI Error: Aborting method \_SB.PCI0.PGON due to previous error (AE_AML_LOOP_TIMEOUT) (20220331/psparse-529)
>>>> [   58.729904] ACPI Error: Aborting method \_SB.PCI0.PEG0.PG00._ON due to previous error (AE_AML_LOOP_TIMEOUT) (20220331/psparse-529)
>>>> [   60.083261] vfio-pci 0000:01:00.0 Unable to change power state from D3cold to D0, device inaccessible
>>>>
>>>> Hopefully this is enough information for experts to resolve this.
>>>
>>> Does this ring some bell for you? Do you need any further information
>>> from Nick?
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Salvatore
>>
> 
>> Have Nick try using "pcie_port_pm=off" and see if it helps the issue.
> 
> I booted into a 6.1 kernel with this option. It has been running without
> problems for 1.5 hours. Usually I would expect the lockup to have
> occurred by now.
> 
>> Does this happen in the latest 6.4 RC as well?
> 
> I have compiled that kernel and will boot into it after running this one
> with the pcie_port_pm=off for another hour or so.
> 
>> I think we need to see a full dmesg and acpidump to better
>> characterize it.
> 
> Please find attached. Let me know if there is anything else I can provide.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Nick.

I don't see nouveau loading, are you explicitly preventing it from 
loading?  Can I see the journal from a boot when it reproduced?