The Latest Kernel Release.

RadicalDreamer · 02-18-2023, 10:34 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by yvesjv

Same here, random and I have to pkill the program.
I have an i7-10750H

The light on my computer would stay on it through out it. My computer wasn't running hard. It just was unresponsive for a bit. I could move my mouse. On run level 3 I was upgrading with slackpkg, the upgrade package part took forever instead of seconds. I switched to ondemand (defaults to powersave i believe) and it works much better. I'm using the "intel_cpufreq" driver. The problem is still there. I don't know what the issue is. I briefly went back to 5.19.17 (except for the kernel headers) and the issue was still there so I went back to 6.1.X. I suppose I owe kernel 6.1 an apology. I upped "/sys/devices/system/cpu/intel_pstate/min_perf_pct" a little bit and now my computer is much more responsive.

On my machine this makes the minimum frequency 1.87 GHz. It says "current policy: frequency should be within 1.87 GHz and 3.90 GHz." Otherwise the min freq would be 1.60 Ghz.

Code:

echo 48 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/intel_pstate/min_perf_pct

I waited a couple weeks before updating this year, so sadly I can't point to anything else.

Here is the 5.19.17 kernel: https://slackware.uk/search?p=%2Fcum...a%2F&q=5.19.17

Quote:

Originally Posted by Aeterna

Not sure if this counts but in 6.2-rc8 schedutil works without hickups under (minor) stress e.g compiling kernel or other software.

Note (random)
heh I got windows 10 icon on the system that never booted to windows. That is good actually

Thanks for the information! Originally I was certain it was schedutil but now I have no idea. I just know under it recently my computer would have bouts of very slow opening programs, loading webpages, etc. After further investigation, maybe I shouldn't have brought this up in this thread.

I used to have Windows 10 on this computer but I got tired of reinstalling it! The problem I've had reminds me of Windows except the computer is doing pretty much nothing while in Windows it would be grunting and making all kinds of noises (fan spinning rapidly) as it struggled to open up a program.

elcore · 02-19-2023, 04:15 AM

Had a soft lockup on 6.1.12, not tainted, & can't repeat it on 6.1.11.

What locks up: Xorg, mouse, keyboard, all frozen.
What does not freeze: network, disk, power button, all works.

Power button does "init 0" after short delay as usual, but after this lockup: nouveau framebuffer display becomes corrupt.
Expected text on shutdown, becomes corrupt/unreadable colored garbage output on top of the screen.
Thought it might be the recent Xorg patch fault at first, but can't seem to repeat the thing on previous kernel 6.1.11.

Aeterna · 02-19-2023, 10:29 AM

I think that it is important to inform at least what CPU is involved. It seems that there is more issues related to AMD than Intel.

elcore · 02-19-2023, 02:26 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Aeterna

I think that it is important to inform at least what CPU is involved. It seems that there is more issues related to AMD than Intel.

Ryzen5, but it's more likely realtek audio/ nouveau video that triggered it.
Don't care anymore really, lost the will to fix unstable stuff, seems completely futile at this point.
I'll just drop 6.1 kernels, got 14.2 installed for multimedia anyway, no big deal.

cwizardone · 02-19-2023, 04:44 PM

6.2
The newest stable kernel, version 6.2.0, has been released.

The tarball, https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux...nux-6.2.tar.gz

Mr. Torvalds' announcement, https://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/...2.2/03207.html

garpu · 02-19-2023, 06:42 PM

So did they fix the nvidia console bug in the 6.2 kernel?

3rensho · 02-19-2023, 10:17 PM

Kernel-6.2 built without a hitch and appears to be running fine. Also, no problems with Nvidia-525.89.02 and the new kernel.

cwizardone · 02-20-2023, 07:54 AM

Year 2023, Round 11.
Another batch of updates has been scheduled for release on Wednesday, 22 February 2023, at approximately 13:00, GMT. If no problems are found while testing the release candidates, they might be available sometime on Tuesday (depending on your time zone).

The details:

6.1.13-rc1, with 118 patches, https://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/...2.2/03820.html

5.15.95-rc1, with 83 patches, https://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/...2.2/03810.html

5.10.169-rc1, with 57 patches, https://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/...2.2/03813.html

5.4.232-rc1, with 156 patches, https://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/...2.2/03803.html

4.19.273-rc1, with 89 patches, https://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/...2.2/03798.html

4.14.306-rc1, with 53 patches, https://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/...2.2/03795.html

kjhambrick · 02-20-2023, 10:09 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by cwizardone

6.2
The newest stable kernel, version 6.2.0, has been released.

The tarball, https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux...nux-6.2.tar.gz

Mr. Torvalds' announcement, https://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/...2.2/03207.html

The KernelNewbies Linux_6.2 Page has a nice summary of what's new in 6.2 if you're interested in the nuts-n-bolts ...

-- kjh

Aeterna · 02-21-2023, 03:15 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by RadicalDreamer

The light on my computer would stay on it through out it. My computer wasn't running hard. It just was unresponsive for a bit. I could move my mouse. On run level 3 I was upgrading with slackpkg, the upgrade package part took forever instead of seconds. I switched to ondemand (defaults to powersave i believe) and it works much better. I'm using the "intel_cpufreq" driver. The problem is still there. I don't know what the issue is. I briefly went back to 5.19.17 (except for the kernel headers) and the issue was still there so I went back to 6.1.X. I suppose I owe kernel 6.1 an apology. I upped "/sys/devices/system/cpu/intel_pstate/min_perf_pct" a little bit and now my computer is much more responsive.

On my machine this makes the minimum frequency 1.87 GHz. It says "current policy: frequency should be within 1.87 GHz and 3.90 GHz." Otherwise the min freq would be 1.60 Ghz.

Code:

echo 48 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/intel_pstate/min_perf_pct

I waited a couple weeks before updating this year, so sadly I can't point to anything else.

Here is the 5.19.17 kernel: https://slackware.uk/search?p=%2Fcum...a%2F&q=5.19.17

Thanks for the information! Originally I was certain it was schedutil but now I have no idea. I just know under it recently my computer would have bouts of very slow opening programs, loading webpages, etc. After further investigation, maybe I shouldn't have brought this up in this thread.

I used to have Windows 10 on this computer but I got tired of reinstalling it! The problem I've had reminds me of Windows except the computer is doing pretty much nothing while in Windows it would be grunting and making all kinds of noises (fan spinning rapidly) as it struggled to open up a program.

I take it back. Schedutil is broken.

Ilgar · 02-21-2023, 07:31 AM

Does anyone experience random reboots with kernel 5.15.94 (on Slackware64 15.0)? I remember this computer of mine doing so with various kernels in the past, but the 5.15.x series have been quite stable so far, up until 5.15.94. The machine barely lasts an hour when left idle. I will probably try switching to a custom 6.x kernel, but I wonder if I am the only one. This is an Intel Core i5-8500T machine.

cwizardone · 02-22-2023, 05:57 AM

Kernel updates 6.1.13, 5.15.95, 5.10.169, 5.4.232, 4.19.273 and 4.14.306 are now available at, https://www.kernel.org/
The change logs,

https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/ker...angeLog-6.1.13

https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/ker...ngeLog-5.15.95

https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/ker...geLog-5.10.169

https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/ker...ngeLog-5.4.232

https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/ker...geLog-4.19.273

https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/ker...geLog-4.14.306

kjhambrick · 02-22-2023, 02:16 PM

all --

Generic Kernel Version 6.1.13.kjh is running fine on my Slackware64 15.0 + Multilib LapTop.

No CVE References were found for 6.1.13, 5.15.95, 5.10.169, 5.4.232, 4.19.273 or 4.14.306, but as always, do check the ChangeLogs for other security-related fixes.

-- kjh

Code:

uname -msrpn: Linux kjhlt7.kjh.home 6.1.13.kjh x86_64 11th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i9-11900K @ 3.50GHz
firmware ...: kernel-firmware-20230215_83f1d77-noarch-1                        # upgraded
NVidia Blob : NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-525.89.02.run
VMWare Blob : VMware-Workstation-Full-17.0.1-21139696.x86_64.bundle

marav · 02-23-2023, 02:31 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by kjhambrick

Aeterna --

See marav's post above and then my followup.

IOW, I turned off the Embedded Controller Debug Option because it sounds dangerous and I don't write ACPI Code that I need tp debug.

CONFIG_ACPI_EC_DEBUGFS was set as 'm' in the default Slackware Kernel Configs.

-- kjh

Latest changelog

Code:

k/kernel-source-6.1.13-noarch-1.txz:  Upgraded.
  ACPI_EC_DEBUGFS m -> n
  INIT_STACK_ALL_ZERO n -> y
  INIT_STACK_NONE y -> n

;-)

Aeterna · 02-23-2023, 04:13 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by marav

Latest changelog

Code:

k/kernel-source-6.1.13-noarch-1.txz:  Upgraded.
  ACPI_EC_DEBUGFS m -> n
  INIT_STACK_ALL_ZERO n -> y
  INIT_STACK_NONE y -> n

;-)

From
https://www.linuxquestions.org/quest...ml#post6410896
Should be

Quote:

rebuilding kernel was something that I wanted to suggest as clearly suspicious option was long in use in Slackware kernel though not sure why.

Kernel is huge and weed out all options that aren't necessary is impossible including developer settings. If not for (unrelated) issues with booting your kernel, this option would happily be turned on until forever.