Re: Intermittent boot failure after 6492fed7d8c9 (v6.0-rc1)

From: Mel Gorman
Date: Tue Oct 11 2022 - 05:21:14 EST


On Mon, Oct 10, 2022 at 08:29:05PM +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > It failed 3/10 times.
>
> This is still not acceptable.
>

Agreed.

> > That's less than the previous 5/10 failures but I
> > cannot be certain it helped without running a lot more boot tests. The
> > failure happens in the same function as before.
>
> I've overlooked the fact that acpi_install_fixed_event_handler()
> enables the event on success, so it is a bug to call it when the
> handler is not ready.
>
> It should help to only enable the event after running cmos_do_probe()
> where the driver data pointer is set, so please try the attached
> patch.

Looks good and it booted 10 times successfully.

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Mel Gorman
SUSE Labs