linux-6.2-rc4+ hangs on poweroff/reboot: Bisected

[Chris Clayton]

Hi.

I'm assuming  that we are not going to see a fix for this regression before 6.2 is released. Consequently, I've
implemented a (very simple) workaround. All that happens is that in the (sysv) init script that starts and stops SDDM,
the nouveau module is removed once SDDM is stopped. With that in place, my system no longer freezes on reboot or poweroff.

Let me know if I can provide any additional diagnostics although, with the problem seemingly occurring so late in the
shutdown process, I may need help on how to go about capturing.

Chris

On 02/02/2023 20:45, Chris Clayton wrote:
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> On 01/02/2023 13:51, Chris Clayton wrote:
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>> On 30/01/2023 23:27, Ben Skeggs wrote:
>>> On Tue, 31 Jan 2023 at 09:09, Chris Clayton <chris2553 at googlemail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi again.
>>>>
>>>> On 30/01/2023 20:19, Chris Clayton wrote:
>>>>> Thanks, Ben.
>>>>
>>>> <snip>
>>>>
>>>>>> Hey,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> This is a complete shot-in-the-dark, as I don't see this behaviour on
>>>>>> *any* of my boards.  Could you try the attached patch please?
>>>>>
>>>>> Unfortunately, the patch made no difference.
>>>>>
>>>>> I've been looking at how the graphics on my laptop is set up, and have a bit of a worry about whether the firmware might
>>>>> be playing a part in this problem. In order to offload video decoding to the NVidia TU117 GPU, it seems the scrubber
>>>>> firmware must be available, but as far as I know,that has not been released by NVidia. To get it to work, I followed
>>>>> what ubuntu have done and the scrubber in /lib/firmware/nvidia/tu117/nvdec/ is a symlink to
>>>>> ../../tu116/nvdev/scrubber.bin. That, of course, means that some of the firmware loaded is for a different card is being
>>>>> loaded. I note that processing related to firmware is being changed in the patch. Might my set up be at the root of my
>>>>> problem?
>>>>>
>>>>> I'll have a fiddle an see what I can work out.
>>>>>
>>>>> Chris
>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>> Ben.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Well, my fiddling has got my system rebooting and shutting down successfully again. I found that if I delete the symlink
>>>> to the scrubber firmware, reboot and shutdown work again. There are however, a number of other files in the tu117
>>>> firmware directory tree that that are symlinks to actual files in its tu116 counterpart. So I deleted all of those too.
>>>> Unfortunately, the absence of one or more of those symlinks causes Xorg to fail to start. I've reinstated all the links
>>>> except scrubber and I now have a system that works as it did until I tried to run a kernel that includes the bad commit
>>>> I identified in my bisection. That includes offloading video decoding to the NVidia card, so what ever I read that said
>>>> the scrubber firmware was needed seems to have been wrong. I get a new message that (nouveau 0000:01:00.0: fb: VPR
>>>> locked, but no scrubber binary!), but, hey, we can't have everything.
>>>>
>>>> If you still want to get to the bottom of this, let me know what you need me to provide and I'll do my best. I suspect
>>>> you might want to because there will a n awful lot of Ubuntu-based systems out there with that scrubber.bin symlink in
>>>> place. On the other hand,m it could but quite a while before ubuntu are deploying 6.2 or later kernels.
>>> The symlinks are correct - whole groups of GPUs share the same FW, and
>>> we use symlinks in linux-firmware to represent this.
>>>
>>> I don't really have any ideas how/why this patch causes issues with
>>> shutdown - it's a path that only gets executed during initialisation.
>>> Can you try and capture the kernel log during shutdown ("dmesg -w"
>>> over ssh? netconsole?), and see if there's any relevant messages
>>> providing a hint at what's going on?  Alternatively, you could try
>>> unloading the module (you will have to stop X/wayland/gdm/etc/etc
>>> first) and seeing if that hangs too.
>>>
>>> Ben.
>>
>> Sorry for the delay - I've been learning about netconsole and netcat. However, I had no success with ssh and netconsole
>> produced a log with nothing unusual in it.
>>
>> Simply stopping Xorg and removing the nouveau module succeeds.
>>
>> So, I rebuilt rc6+ after a pull from linus' tree this morning and set the nouveau debug level to 7. I then booted to a
>> console before doing a reboot (with Ctl+Alt+Del). As expected the machine locked up just before it would ordinarily
>> restart. The last few lines on the console might be helpful:
>>
>> ...
>> nouveau 0000:01:00:0  fifo: preinit running...
>> nouveau 0000:01:00:0  fifo: preinit completed in 4us
>> nouveau 0000:01:00:0  gr: preinit running...
>> nouveau 0000:01:00:0  gr: preinit completed in 0us
>> nouveau 0000:01:00:0  nvdec0: preinit running...
>> nouveau 0000:01:00:0  nvdec0: preinit completed in 0us
>> nouveau 0000:01:00:0  nvdec0: preinit running...
>> nouveau 0000:01:00:0  nvdec0: preinit completed in 0us
>> nouveau 0000:01:00:0  sec2: preinit running...
>> nouveau 0000:01:00:0  sec2: preinit completed in 0us
>> nouveau 0000:01:00:0  fb:.VPR locked, running scrubber binary
>>
>> These messages appear after the "sd 4:0:0:0 [sda] Stopping disk" I reported in my initial email.
>>
>> After the "running scrubber" line appears the machine is locked and I have to hold down the power button to recover. I
>> get the same outcome from running "halt -dip", "poweroff -di" and "shutdown -h -P now". I guess it's no surprise that
>> all three result in the same outcome because invocations halt, poweroff and reboot (without the -f argument)from a
>> runlevel other than 0 resukt in shutdown being run. switching to runlevel 0 with "telenit 0" results in the same
>> messages from nouveau followed by the lockup.
>>
>> Let me know if you need any additional diagnostics.
>>
>> Chris
>>
> 
> I've done some more investigation and found that I hadn't done sufficient amemdment the scripts run at shutdown to
> prevent the network being shutdown. I've now got netconsole captures for 6.2.0-rc6+
> (9f266ccaa2f5228bfe67ad58a94ca4e0109b954a) and, for comparison, 6.1.9. These two logs are attached.
> 
> Chris
> 
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>>
>>>> Chris
>>>>
>>>> <snip>