Re: Kernel 6.4-rc1 ARM boot fails

[Ard Biesheuvel]

On Wed, 10 May 2023 at 08:30, Colin Foster
<colin.foster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi Ard,
>
> I just wanted to give a heads up. I tested 6.4-rc1 on a Beaglebone Black
> and kept getting boot hangs. A bisect led me to commit c76c6c4ecbec ("ARM:
> 9294/2: vfp: Fix broken softirq handling with instrumentation enabled").
>
> The dying message is "Run /sbin/init as init process"
>
> I'm not sure if this has already been reported. I was able to revert this
> patch and confirm things work again.
>
>
> My current kernel version with the revert is below. I can share my kconfig
> if that's needed.
>
> ```
> # uname -a
> Linux buildroot 6.4.0-rc1-00022-g6ceb2f82fe40 #1313 SMP PREEMPT Tue May  9 23:02:58 PDT 2023 armv7l GNU/Linux
> ```
>
>
> Thanks, and let me know if you need any more information from me.
>


Thanks for the report.

This should fix it:

https://www.armlinux.org.uk/developer/patches/viewpatch.php?id=9297/1