Re: 4.9-rc1 boot regression, ambiguous bisect result

From: Dan Williams
Date: Thu Nov 03 2016 - 01:18:52 EST


On Wed, Nov 2, 2016 at 5:41 PM, Neri, Ricardo <ricardo.neri@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sun, 2016-10-30 at 08:59 -0700, Dan Williams wrote:
>> On Sun, Oct 30, 2016 at 5:08 AM, Thorsten Leemhuis
>> <regressions@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > JFYI: I added this report to the list of regressions for Linux 4.9. I'll
>> > watch this thread for further updates on this issue to document progress
>> > in my weekly reports. Please let me know via regressions@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> > in case the discussion moves to a different place (bugzilla or another
>> > mail thread for example). tia!
>> >
>> > Current status (afaics) in my report: This looks stuck. Or was is
>> > discussed (or even fixed) somewhere else?
>>
>> Thanks, and no, not fixed yet. I've not found the time to run the
>> experiments Matt needs, but a colleague has offered to look into it.
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>
> Dan, was there a special configuration that you enabled for this bug?
> The person working on the bug can't reproduce the bug in v4.9-rc1 or
> v4.9-rc3.

I am pxe-booting the platform to an nfs root filesystem.