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

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Date:   Thu, 4 May 2023 12:49:27 -0600
From:   Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>
To:     Raghavendra K T <raghavendra.kt@....com>,
        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.

On 5/4/23 12:48 PM, Raghavendra K T wrote:
> On 5/4/2023 10:14 PM, Jens Axboe wrote:
>> On 5/4/23 10:38 AM, Raghavendra K T wrote:
>>> On 5/4/2023 5:19 AM, 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....
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Ben
>>>>
>>>
>>> Hello Ben,
>>>
>>> (CCing Jens here)
>>>
>>> I was facing same issue too. Surprising I did not hit the same on the
>>> guest VM.
>>>
>>> After bisecting, found that Reverting
>>> [9f4107b07b17b5ee68af680150f91227bea2df6f] block: store bdev->bd_disk->fops->submit_bio state in bdev
>>>
>>> Helped me to boot back the system. Can you please confirm
>>
>> Can you try and pull:
>>
>> git://git.kernel.dk/linux for-6.4/block
>>
>> into current -git and see if that works for you? There's a fix for that
>> commit in there.
>>
> 
> Jens, pulling for-6.4/block helped in my case.

Great! It will be heading to Linus's tree before -rc1.

-- 
Jens Axboe