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From: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
To: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>,
	Anjaneya Chagam <anjaneya.chagam@intel.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, x86@kernel.org,
	Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: 5.16-rc: "x86/boot: Pull up cmdline" breaks mem=
Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2021 11:03:07 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YbHUW1KTfvJtxNwP@zn.tnic> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ae2bb14d-d27a-e76d-adde-ef888d373343@google.com>

Hi Hugh,

On Wed, Dec 08, 2021 at 09:44:54PM -0800, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> Bad news, I'm afraid: I boot with "mem=1G" on the cmdline for testing,
> which worked fine on 5.16-rc1, but does not work on 5.16-rc2 onwards.
>
> Bisection arrived at 8d48bf8206f7 ("x86/boot: Pull up cmdline preparation
> and early param parsing"); and reverting c0f2077baa41 ("x86/boot: Mark
> prepare_command_line() __init") then 8d48bf820cf7 does fix my "mem=1G".

Yeah, I had a bug reporter report breaking on his machine but he didn't
respond to my request for additional details.

Can you pls send me full dmesg and .config of the -rc1 kernel which
still boots fine. I'd like to try to repro.

> I have not tried 5.15-stable, but guess that is likewise afflicted.

Right.

> Sympathy, but no suggestions from me: early init ordering is hard!

Tell me about it! This is the 4 or so "fix" which tries to address
fallout from Mike and mine's attempt to sort out memblock ordering
during early boot.

Thx.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

https://people.kernel.org/tglx/notes-about-netiquette

  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-12-09 10:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-12-09  5:44 5.16-rc: "x86/boot: Pull up cmdline" breaks mem= Hugh Dickins
2021-12-09  5:49 ` Hugh Dickins
2021-12-09 10:03 ` Borislav Petkov [this message]
2021-12-09 12:49   ` Borislav Petkov
2021-12-09 17:25     ` Hugh Dickins

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