Bug 74131

Summary:	Kernel 3.14 ACPICA changes prevent kernel from booting on some motherboards
Product:	ACPI	Reporter:	Spyros Stathopoulos (spystath)
Component:	ACPICA-Core	Assignee:	Lv Zheng (lv.zheng)
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal	CC:	thomas, tianyu.lan
Priority:	P1
Hardware:	x86-64
OS:	Linux
Kernel Version:	3.14	Subsystem:
Regression:	Yes	Bisected commit-id:
Attachments:	Revert commits 671cc68-c14ced0 dmidecode output for Gigabyte B85-HD3

Description Spyros Stathopoulos 2014-04-15 09:44:03 UTC

Created attachment 132341 [details]
Revert commits 671cc68-c14ced0

Changes related to ACPICA that have been integrated in 3.14 break boot for some socket 1150/1155 motherboards. Archlinux (pretty much vanilla) kernel fails to boot after decompressing the image on select hardware.

This is probably related to BIOS issues as well as discussed in [1].

Non exhaustive affected hardware list:
Gigabyte B85-HD3
Gigabyte B85M-D3H
Gigabyte Z87P-D3
Gigabyte Z87X
Gigabyte Z87-HD3
Supermicro X9SAE-V

First problematic commit is 671cc68 [2]. Reverting commits 671cc68-c14ced0 makes booting possible again. Attached is the (crude) reverting patch against tag v3.14.

[1]: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/39811
[2]: https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=671cc68dc61f029d44b43a681356078e02d8dab8

Comment 1 Spyros Stathopoulos 2014-04-15 09:47:13 UTC

Created attachment 132351 [details]
dmidecode output for Gigabyte B85-HD3

Comment 2 Lv Zheng 2014-04-16 00:34:56 UTC

Please track 73911, I'll post fix patch there.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 73911 ***

Comment 3 Lv Zheng 2014-04-16 02:06:42 UTC

Could you also help to do the tests listed in the following link:

https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=73911#c8
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=73911#c13

This bug is urgent, we need your test result to track the root cause.

Thanks in advance.

Comment 4 Lv Zheng 2014-06-11 00:16:40 UTC

Shipped in Linux v3.15-rc7.
Closing.