Re: Boot regression in Linux 6.1 gone for Montecito in 6.3
Hi Adrian,
On 20.05.23 21:16, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
Hello Frank!
On Sat, 2023-05-20 at 20:19 +0200, Frank Scheiner wrote:
I today noticed that a new Debian kernel is available from [1]. Thanks
to whoever built that one - most likely Adrian.
The buildd built the kernel, not me ;-).
Yeah, sure. :-) Did you also check out 6.2?
I currently have the rx2620 and the rx2800-i2 at home and gave it a test
on them, and...
...it is working more or less flawlessly on both systems. The boot
regression at where the initramfs is extracted is gone for the rx2620.
And I can confirm that this kernel boots fine on my RX2660 again. The latest
stable kernel from the 6.1 tree (6.1.27) is still affected by this bug though,
so hopefully whatever fixed this bug will get backported to the 6.1 tree.
There is a reproducible issue for the rx2800-i2, though, happening just
after the first occurance of a message from the igb driver for the four
built-in PCI-e NICs (longer log on [2]). I cut the intertwined USB
messages here:
[...]
I got this message after rebooting the system with 6.3.
It doesn't actually affect operation noticeably. As the rx2660 has
different NICs (BCM5704) and those are attached via PCI-X but also has
PCIe, I suspect this is actually related to PCIe and not the igb NICs in
the rx2800-i2 then.
Earlier today I built a 6.4.0-rc2 kernel with kernel config based on
"config-6.1.0-9-mckinley" and localmodconfig matching the needed modules
for my rx2620 **and** rx2800-i2 combined.
Unfortunately the resulting kernel "crashes" as soon as udevd starts and
that for both systems similarly. But yeah, the initramfs issues are gone
for the rx2620. If someone is interested, the error messages are on [3]
and [4] for rx2620 and rx2800-i2 respectively.
[3]: https://pastebin.com/SAUKbG7Z
[4]: https://pastebin.com/v1TTB2x3
Well, rc2 might just be to early to conclude that there is a new error.
And it could also be an issue of my kernel config. I'll try to observe
how later kernels behave.
Maybe you will have time to bisect it tomorrow? :-)
Unfortunately not, I'm away tomorrow. Wouldn't it make more sense to
wait for the 6.4 release to be sure it's not due to something unrelated
to ia64 (1 run takes my rx2800-i2 40 mins and it only produces a handful
of modules in that time)?
First I'll try w/o an intramfs and all needed drivers compiled in, to
see if it will boot through then.
Cheers,
Frank
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