Re: PWM regression causing failures with the pwm-atmel driver

From: Peter Rosin
Date: Tue May 23 2023 - 16:42:58 EST


2023-05-23 at 01:34, Peter Rosin wrote:
> So, I took a step back and can only conclude that there must be some
> another regression to find, and I was confused by that other regression.
> In short, I was on 6.1.<foo> and everything was fine, and then I bumped
> to 6.3 and a process crashed. I went to 6.2 and that same process also
> crashed. I then totally focused on v6.1..v6.2 to figure out the problem.
> I simply assumed v6.3 had the same problem because the symptom from
> 30.000ft was the same (that process died). I failed to go back to v6.3
> to confirm that it was indeed the same problem as I had found in the
> v6.1..v6.2 range.
>
> My bad, it seems I have another day of bisections lined up.

For closure, I ended up with this:
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/221d19e2-6b92-7f38-7d8a-a730f54c33ea@xxxxxxxxxx/

I.e. another v6.1..v6.2 regression that caused sound failures.
The two problems looked very similar to the suffering application.

Anyway, sorry again for the noise.

Cheers,
Peter