Re: Oopses and ACPI problems (Linus 2.6.29-rc4)

[Darren Salt <linux@youmustbejoking.demon.co.uk>]

[Adding Matthew Garrett & Corentin Chary to Cc]

I demand that Ingo Molnar may or may not have written...

> * Darren Salt <linux@youmustbejoking.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>> I'm seeing various oopses with -rc4, where -rc3 is fine; config, dmesg
>> (captured via netconsole) and decoded oops data attached ¹. The last few
>> oopses were followed by a scrambled display and a hard lockup.

>> All oopses follow an otherwise successful suspend-to-RAM.

> Various folks Cc:-ed. There's been a late, rather large ACPI merge, so
> one post-rc3 suspect would be one of these commits:

[snip]
> 7695fb0: eeepc-laptop: fix oops when changing backlight brightness during
eeepc-laptop init

No, that one's harmless :-)

[snip]
> 2b25c9f: eeepc-laptop: use netlink interface

That one makes acpid (apparently) useless. The rest of the commit description
is:
    To be prepared for /proc/acpi/event removal we export events
    also through generic netlink interface.

Note that "also". The actual effect of the patch is "instead".

Adding the two removed lines (but removing the post-increment of the event
count) fixes this.

> 5740294: eeepc-laptop: Implement rfkill hotplugging in eeepc-laptop

Reverting this fixes the rfkill oops; things work correctly again. I don't
know why this appears to be needed, since things work fine without this patch
‒ both Fn-F2 and echoing to /sys/class/rfkill/rfkill0/state ‒ even when I
start up with init=/bin/sh and test directly from that shell.

(901; BIOS rev. 1808.)

[snip]
> 2a7dc0d: asus-laptop: use generic netlink interface

That one also says "also" where it should say "instead" (not that it affects
me).

... oh yes, there's a long delay between output of these two lines during
boot:
  input: ETPS/2 Elantech Touchpad as /class/input/input5
  eeepc: Hotkey init flags 0x41
(not seen in .28 or .28.1; not checked later .28.*.)

Anyway, a patch for the ACPI reporting problems will follow this message.

[snip]
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