Re: REGRESSION WITH BISECT: v6.5-rc6 TPM patch breaks S3 on some Intel systems

From: Jarkko Sakkinen
Date: Thu Aug 17 2023 - 18:34:36 EST


On Fri Aug 18, 2023 at 1:25 AM EEST, Todd Brandt wrote:
> On Fri, 2023-08-18 at 00:47 +0300, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote:
> > On Fri Aug 18, 2023 at 12:09 AM EEST, Todd Brandt wrote:
> > > While testing S3 on 6.5.0-rc6 we've found that 5 systems are seeing
> > > a
> > > crash and reboot situation when S3 suspend is initiated. To
> > > reproduce
> > > it, this call is all that's required "sudo sleepgraph -m mem
> > > -rtcwake
> > > 15".
> >
> > 1. Are there logs available?
> > 2. Is this the test case: https://pypi.org/project/sleepgraph/ (never
> > used it before).
>
> There are no dmesg logs because the S3 crash wipes them out. Sleepgraph
> isn't actually necessary to activate it, just an S3 suspend "echo mem >
> /sys/power/state".
>
> So far it appears to only have affected test systems, not production
> hardware, and none of them have TPM chips, so I'm beginning to wonder
> if this patch just inadvertently activated a bug somewhere else in the
> kernel that happens to affect test hardware.
>
> I'll continue to debug it, this isn't an emergency as so far I haven't
> seen it in production hardware.

OK, I'll still see if I could reproduce it just in case.

BR, Jarkko