Re: Hang loading initrd since last Friday.

[Raghavendra K T]

On 5/4/2023 10:14 PM, Jens Axboe wrote:
> 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, pulling for-6.4/block helped in my case.

Thank you :)