Re: Boot stall regression from "printk for 5.19" merge

From: John Ogness
Date: Sun Jun 19 2022 - 18:31:46 EST


On 2022-06-20, John Ogness <john.ogness@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 2022-06-19, Marek Behún <kabel@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> the series
>> https://lore.kernel.org/linux-kernel/YouKQw72H7y9EJQK@alley/
>> merged by commit 537e62c865dc ("Merge tag 'printk-for-5.19' of
>> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/printk/linux")
>>
>> and in particular the commit 09c5ba0aa2fc ("printk: add kthread console
>> printers")
>>
>> causes a regression on arm64 (Marvell CN9130-CRB board) where the
>> system boot freezes in most cases (and is unusable until restarted by
>> watchdog), or, in some cases boots, but the console output gets mangled
>> for a while (the serial console spits garbage characters).

Also, have you tried 5.19-rc3? There were several fixes that came in
after rc2.

John Ogness