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

From: Mathieu Chouquet-Stringer
Date: Mon Dec 12 2022 - 13:25:20 EST


Hello Rafael,

On Tue, Oct 11, 2022 at 10:20:50AM +0100, Mel Gorman wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 10, 2022 at 08:29:05PM +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > > 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.

I'm hitting this issue on the 6.0 stable releases (aka 6.0.y) and
looking at the stable tree I see this hasn't been merged... I just got
bitten by this on 6.0.12.

Greg, if Rafael agrees, I think you should apply 4919d3eb2ec0 and
0782b66ed2fb to the 6.0.y tree.

Thank you in advance.

Cheers,

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