linux-kernel - RE: Hang loading initrd since last Friday.

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Date:   Thu, 4 May 2023 17:59:10 +0000
From:   "Michael Kelley (LINUX)" <mikelley@...rosoft.com>
To:     Ben Greear <greearb@...delatech.com>,
        Linux regressions mailing list <regressions@...ts.linux.dev>,
        Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@...il.com>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: Hang loading initrd since last Friday.

From: Ben Greear <greearb@...delatech.com> Sent: Thursday, May 4, 2023 10:23 AM
> 
> On 5/3/23 16:49, Ben Greear wrote:
> > On 5/2/23 21:46, Linux regression tracking (Thorsten Leemhuis) wrote:
> >> On 03.05.23 04:31, Bagas Sanjaya wrote:
> >>> On Tue, May 02, 2023 at 02:03:33PM -0700, Ben Greear wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> Pulling today's upstream 6.3+ tree, my system now hangs loading initrd.
> >>
> >> Just to understand this properly: you mean after the boot loader said it
> >> loaded the initramfs, not when the kernel starts using it?
> >
> > I am bisecting...it appears to be .config related.  If I skip enabling things
> > during bisect, then I do not see the problem.  But I copied my original buggy .config
> > into an otherwise good kernel commit, and now it fails.  I'm manually bisecting
> > the .config settings....
> 
> I had enabled this option:  CONFIG_HYPERV_VTL_MODE
> 
> And that makes it not boot.  Not sure that is expected or not, but
> I will simply un-select it and continue on, as I do not actually need that feature.
> 

What you observed is expected when CONFIG_HYPERV_VTL_MODE is selected,
which is why it defaults to N.  The comment for that option in the Kconfig file says:

	  Select this option to build a Linux kernel to run at a VTL other than
	  the normal VTL0, which currently is only VTL2.  This option
	  initializes the x86 platform for VTL2, and adds the ability to boot
	  secondary CPUs directly into 64-bit context as required for VTLs other
	  than 0.  A kernel built with this option must run at VTL2, and will
	  not run as a normal guest.

Note the last sentence.

Michael