linux-kernel - Re: [Bug 206175] Fedora >= 5.4 kernels instantly freeze on boot without producing any display output

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Date:   Wed, 11 Mar 2020 16:43:28 +0100
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
To:     "Artem S. Tashkinov" <aros@....com>
Cc:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        iommu@...ts.linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [Bug 206175] Fedora >= 5.4 kernels instantly freeze on boot
 without producing any display output

On Wed, Mar 11, 2020 at 03:34:38PM +0000, Artem S. Tashkinov wrote:
> On 3/11/20 3:24 PM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>> pdev->dma_mask = parent->dma_mask ? *parent->dma_mask : 0;
>
> This patch makes no difference.
>
> The kernel panics with the same call trace which starts with:

This looks really strange and not dma mask related, but there must be
some odd interactions somewhere.

Can you call gdb on the vmlinux file for the 5.5.8-200.fc31 kernel
in the jpg and then do

l *(kmem_cache_alloc_trace+0x7e)

l *(acpi_processor_add+0x3a)

and send the output?