Re: Kernel 6.4-rc1 ARM boot fails

From: Linux regression tracking #adding (Thorsten Leemhuis)
Date: Sun May 14 2023 - 09:15:11 EST


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On 10.05.23 08:30, Colin Foster wrote:
>
> 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.
> [...]

Thanks for the report. I know a fix is incoming, but to be sure the
issue doesn't fall through the cracks unnoticed, I'm adding it to
regzbot, the Linux kernel regression tracking bot:

#regzbot ^introduced c76c6c4ecbec
#regzbot title arm32: tons of different boot time errors
#regzbot ignore-activity
#regzbot monitor:
https://lore.kernel.org/all/000000000000d3001a05faf979c8@xxxxxxxxxx/
#regzbot fix ARM: 9297/1: vfp: avoid unbalanced stack on 'success'
return path
#regzbot monitor:
https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230506161325.223362-1-ardb@xxxxxxxxxx/


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