Hi Russell,

On 8/23/19 11:36 AM, Russell King - ARM Linux admin wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> To everyone on the long Cc list...
> 
> What's happening with this?  I was about to merge the patches for 32-bit
> ARM, which I don't want to do if doing so will cause this regression on
> 32-bit ARM as well.
> 

The regression is sorted as of yesterday, a new patch is going through tip:
timers/urgent and will be part of the next -rc.

If you want to merge them there should be nothing blocking.

> Thanks.
> 
> On Thu, Aug 22, 2019 at 07:57:59AM +0100, Chris Clayton wrote:
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> Firstly, apologies to anyone on the long cc list that turns out not to be 
>> particularly interested in the following, but
>> you were all marked as cc'd in the commit message below.
>>
>> I've found a problem that isn't present in 5.2 series or 4.19 series 
>> kernels, and seems to have arrived in 5.3-rc1. The
>> problem is that if I suspend (to ram) my laptop, on resume 14 minutes or 
>> more after suspending, I have no networking
>> functionality. If I resume the laptop after 13 minutes or less, networking 
>> works fine. I haven't tried to get finer
>> grained timings between 13 and 14 minutes, but can do if it would help.
>>
>> ifconfig shows that wlan0 is still up and still has its assigned ip address 
>> but, for instance, a ping of any other
>> device on my network, fails as does pinging, say, kernel.org. I've tried 
>> "downing" the network with (/sbin/ifdown) and
>> unloading the iwlmvm module and then reloading the module and "upping" 
>> (/sbin/ifup) the network, but my network is still
>> unusable. I should add that the problem also manifests if I hibernate the 
>> laptop, although my testing of this has been
>> minimal. I can do more if required.
>>
>> As I say, the problem first appears in 5.3-rc1, so I've bisected between 
>> 5.2.0 and 5.3-rc1 and that concluded with:
>>
>> [chris:~/kernel/linux]$ git bisect good
>> 7ac8707479886c75f353bfb6a8273f423cfccb23 is the first bad commit
>> commit 7ac8707479886c75f353bfb6a8273f423cfccb23
>> Author: Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frasc...@arm.com>
>> Date:   Fri Jun 21 10:52:49 2019 +0100
>>
>>     x86/vdso: Switch to generic vDSO implementation
>>
>>     The x86 vDSO library requires some adaptations to take advantage of the
>>     newly introduced generic vDSO library.
>>
>>     Introduce the following changes:
>>      - Modification of vdso.c to be compliant with the common vdso datapage
>>      - Use of lib/vdso for gettimeofday
>>
>>     [ tglx: Massaged changelog and cleaned up the function signature 
>> formatting ]
>>
>>     Signed-off-by: Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frasc...@arm.com>
>>     Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <t...@linutronix.de>
>>     Cc: linux-a...@vger.kernel.org
>>     Cc: linux-arm-ker...@lists.infradead.org
>>     Cc: linux-m...@vger.kernel.org
>>     Cc: linux-kselft...@vger.kernel.org
>>     Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.mari...@arm.com>
>>     Cc: Will Deacon <will.dea...@arm.com>
>>     Cc: Arnd Bergmann <a...@arndb.de>
>>     Cc: Russell King <li...@armlinux.org.uk>
>>     Cc: Ralf Baechle <r...@linux-mips.org>
>>     Cc: Paul Burton <paul.bur...@mips.com>
>>     Cc: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezc...@linaro.org>
>>     Cc: Mark Salyzyn <saly...@android.com>
>>     Cc: Peter Collingbourne <p...@google.com>
>>     Cc: Shuah Khan <sh...@kernel.org>
>>     Cc: Dmitry Safonov <0x7f454...@gmail.com>
>>     Cc: Rasmus Villemoes <li...@rasmusvillemoes.dk>
>>     Cc: Huw Davies <h...@codeweavers.com>
>>     Cc: Shijith Thotton <sthot...@marvell.com>
>>     Cc: Andre Przywara <andre.przyw...@arm.com>
>>     Link: 
>> https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190621095252.32307-23-vincenzo.frasc...@arm.com
>>
>>  arch/x86/Kconfig                         |   3 +
>>  arch/x86/entry/vdso/Makefile             |   9 ++
>>  arch/x86/entry/vdso/vclock_gettime.c     | 245 
>> ++++---------------------------
>>  arch/x86/entry/vdso/vdsox32.lds.S        |   1 +
>>  arch/x86/entry/vsyscall/Makefile         |   2 -
>>  arch/x86/entry/vsyscall/vsyscall_gtod.c  |  83 -----------
>>  arch/x86/include/asm/pvclock.h           |   2 +-
>>  arch/x86/include/asm/vdso/gettimeofday.h | 191 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>  arch/x86/include/asm/vdso/vsyscall.h     |  44 ++++++
>>  arch/x86/include/asm/vgtod.h             |  75 +---------
>>  arch/x86/include/asm/vvar.h              |   7 +-
>>  arch/x86/kernel/pvclock.c                |   1 +
>>  12 files changed, 284 insertions(+), 379 deletions(-)
>>  delete mode 100644 arch/x86/entry/vsyscall/vsyscall_gtod.c
>>  create mode 100644 arch/x86/include/asm/vdso/gettimeofday.h
>>  create mode 100644 arch/x86/include/asm/vdso/vsyscall.h
>>
>> To confirm my bisection was correct, I did a git checkout of 
>> 7ac8707479886c75f353bfb6a8273f423cfccb2. As expected, the
>> kernel exhibited the problem I've described. However, a kernel built at the 
>> immediately preceding (parent?) commit
>> (bfe801ebe84f42b4666d3f0adde90f504d56e35b) has a working network after a (>= 
>> 14minute) suspend/resume cycle.
>>
>> As the module name implies, I'm using wireless networking. The hardware is 
>> detected as "Intel(R) Wireless-AC 9260
>> 160MHz, REV=0x324" by iwlwifi.
>>
>> I'm more than happy to provide additional diagnostics (but may need a little 
>> hand-holding) and to apply diagnostic or
>> fix patches, but please cc me on any reply as I'm not subscribed to any of 
>> the kernel-related mailing lists.
>>
>> Chris
>>
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> 

-- 
Regards,
Vincenzo

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