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:   Mon, 29 May 2023 09:56:02 +0900
From:   Nick Hastings <nicholaschastings@...il.com>
To:     Mario Limonciello <mario.limonciello@....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)

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.

Download attachment "dmesg-20230529T082455.log.gz" of type "application/gzip" (25419 bytes)

Download attachment "acpidump-20230529T082605.log.gz" of type "application/gzip" (396192 bytes)