Re: Hang loading initrd since last Friday.

[Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>]

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 Axboe