linux-kernel - Re: 4.9-rc1 boot regression, ambiguous bisect result

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Date:   Wed, 2 Nov 2016 22:18:46 -0700
From:   Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>
To:     "Neri, Ricardo" <ricardo.neri@...el.com>
Cc:     "regressions@...mhuis.info" <regressions@...mhuis.info>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "matt@...eblueprint.co.uk" <matt@...eblueprint.co.uk>,
        "linux-efi@...r.kernel.org" <linux-efi@...r.kernel.org>,
        "ard.biesheuvel@...aro.org" <ard.biesheuvel@...aro.org>,
        "pjones@...hat.com" <pjones@...hat.com>,
        "mingo@...nel.org" <mingo@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: 4.9-rc1 boot regression, ambiguous bisect result

On Wed, Nov 2, 2016 at 5:41 PM, Neri, Ricardo <ricardo.neri@...el.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 2016-10-30 at 08:59 -0700, Dan Williams wrote:
>> On Sun, Oct 30, 2016 at 5:08 AM, Thorsten Leemhuis
>> <regressions@...mhuis.info> wrote:
>> > JFYI: I added this report to the list of regressions for Linux 4.9. I'll
>> > watch this thread for further updates on this issue to document progress
>> > in my weekly reports. Please let me know via regressions@...mhuis.info
>> > in case the discussion moves to a different place (bugzilla or another
>> > mail thread for example). tia!
>> >
>> > Current status (afaics) in my report: This looks stuck. Or was is
>> > discussed (or even fixed) somewhere else?
>>
>> Thanks, and no, not fixed yet. I've not found the time to run the
>> experiments Matt needs, but a colleague has offered to look into it.
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> Dan, was there a special configuration that you enabled for this bug?
> The person working on the bug can't reproduce the bug in v4.9-rc1 or
> v4.9-rc3.

I am pxe-booting the platform to an nfs root filesystem.