linux-kernel - Re: LTS kernel Linux 4.14.290 unable to boot with edk2-ovmf (x86

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Date:   Mon, 22 Aug 2022 16:13:03 +0800
From:   Qu Wenruo <quwenruo.btrfs@....com>
To:     Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:     stable <stable@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-btrfs@...r.kernel.org" <linux-btrfs@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-x86_64@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: LTS kernel Linux 4.14.290 unable to boot with edk2-ovmf (x86_64
 UEFI runtime)



On 2022/8/22 15:58, Greg KH wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 22, 2022 at 03:49:51PM +0800, Qu Wenruo wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 2022/8/22 15:33, Greg KH wrote:
>>> On Mon, Aug 22, 2022 at 03:24:53PM +0800, Qu Wenruo wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 2022/8/22 14:25, Greg KH wrote:
>>>>> On Mon, Aug 22, 2022 at 09:15:59AM +0800, Qu Wenruo wrote:
>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> When backporting some btrfs specific patches to all LTS kernels, I found
>>>>>> v4.14.290 kernel unable to boot as a KVM guest with edk2-ovmf
>>>>>> (edk2-ovmf: 202205, qemu 7.0.0, libvirt 1:8.6.0).
>>>>>>
>>>>>> While all other LTS/stable branches (4.19.x, 5.4.x, 5.10.x, 5.15.x,
>>>>>> 5.18.x, 5.19.x) can boot without a hipccup.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I tried the following configs, but none of them can even provide an
>>>>>> early output:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> - CONFIG_X86_VERBOSE_BOOTUP
>>>>>> - CONFIG_EARLY_PRINTK
>>>>>> - CONFIG_EARLY_PRINTK_EFI
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Is this a known bug or something new?
>>>>>
>>>>> Has this ever worked properly on this very old kernel tree?  If so, can
>>>>> you use 'git bisect' to find the offending commit?
>>>>
>>>> Unfortunately the initial v4.14 from upstream can not even be compiled.
>>>
>>> Really?  Try using an older version of gcc and you should be fine.  It
>>> did build properly back in 2017 when it was released :)
>>
>> Yeah, I'm pretty sure my toolchain is too new for v4.14.0. But my distro
>> only provides the latest and mostly upstream packages.
>>
>> It may be a even worse disaster to find a way to rollback to older
>> toolchains using my distro...
>>
>> Also my hardware may not be well suited for older kernels either.
>> (Zen 3 CPU used here)
>>
>> In fact, I even find it hard just to locate a v4.14.x tag that can compile.
>> After some bisection between v4.14.x tags, only v4.14.268 and newer tags
>> can even be compiled using latest toolchain.
>> (But still tons of warning, and tons of objdump warnings against
>> insn_get_length()).
>>
>> I'm not sure what's the normal practice for backports to such old branch.
>>
>> Do you stable guys keep dedicated VMs loaded with older distro just for
>> these old branches?
>
> I don't, that's why those kernels can be built with newer versions of
> gcc.
>
> Your distro should have a version of gcc-10 or gcc-9 that can be
> installed, right?

This may sounds like a meme, but I'm really using Archlinux for my VM
and host, and it doesn't provide older GCC at all.

>  Or maybe use the gcc versions on kernel.org that only
> work for kernel builds?
>
>> If so, any recommendation on those kinda retro distro?
>
> Try installing an old version of Debian, or better yet, use a distro
> that provides old versions of gcc :)

I guess that's the only way to go.

Thanks for all the advice,
Qu

>
> good luck!
>
> greg k-h