On Fri, May 26, 2023 at 07:17:26PM +0000, Sami Korkalainen wrote:

Linux 6.2 and newer are (mostly) unbootable on my old HP 6730b laptop, the 6.1.30 works still fine.
The weirdest thing is that newer kernels (like 6.3.4 and 6.4-rc3) may boot ok on the first try, but when rebooting, the very same version doesn't boot.
       
Some times, when trying to boot, I get this message repeated forever:
ACPI Error: No handler or method for GPE [XX], disabling event (20221020/evgpe-839)
On newer kernels, the date is 20230331 instead of 20221020. There is also some other error, but I can't read it as it gets overwritten by the other ACPI error, see image linked at the end.

And some times, the screen will just stay completely blank.

I tried booting with acpi=off, but it does not help.
       
I bisected and this is the first bad commit 7e68dd7d07a2
"Merge tag 'net-next-6.2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next"

I think networking changes shouldn't cause this ACPI regression, right?

       
As the later kernels had the seemingly random booting behaviour (mentioned above), I retested the last good one 7c4a6309e27f by booting it several times and it boots every time.

I tried getting some boot logs, but the boot process does not go far enough to make any logs.

Kernel .config file: https://0x0.st/Hqt1.txt
     
Environment (outputs of a working Linux 6.1 build):
Software (output of the ver_linux script): https://0x0.st/Hqte.txt
Processor information (from /proc/cpuinfo): https://0x0.st/Hqt2.txt
Module information (from /proc/modules): https://0x0.st/HqtL.txt
/proc/ioports: https://0x0.st/Hqt9.txt
/proc/iomem:   https://0x0.st/Hqtf.txt
PCI information ('lspci -vvv' as root): https://0x0.st/HqtO.txt
SCSI information (from /proc/scsi/scsi)

Where is SCSI info?

Attached devices:
Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00
Vendor: ATA      Model: KINGSTON SVP200S Rev: C4
Type:   Direct-Access                    ANSI  SCSI revision: 05
Host: scsi1 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00
Vendor: hp       Model: CDDVDW TS-L633M  Rev: 0301
Type:   CD-ROM                           ANSI  SCSI revision: 05
       
Distribution: Arch Linux
Boot manager: systemd-boot (UEFI)

git bisect log: https://0x0.st/Hqgx.txt
ACPI Error (sorry for the dusty screen): https://0x0.st/HqEk.jpeg

#regzbot ^introduced 7e68dd7d07a2

Best regards
Sami Korkalainen

Anyway, I also Cc: netdev and acpi lists and maintainers (maybe they have
idea on what's going on here) and also fixing up regzbot entry title:

#regzbot title: Boot stall with ACPI error (no handler/method for GPE) caused by net-next 6.2 pull

Thanks.

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