Re: printk.time causes rare kernel boot hangs

[Linux regression tracking #adding (Thorsten Leemhuis)]

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On 13.06.23 15:41, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> [Being tracked in this bug which contains much more detail:
> https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/issues/1696 ]
> 
> Recent kernels hang rarely when booted on qemu.  Usually you need to
> boot 100s or 1,000s of times to see the hang, compared to 292,612 [sic]
> successful boots which I was able to do before the problematic commit.
> 
> A reproducer (you'll probably need to use Fedora) is:
> 
>   $ while guestfish -a /dev/null -v run >& /tmp/log; do echo -n . ; done
> 
> You will need to leave it running for probably several hours, and
> examine the /tmp/log file at the end.
> 
> I tracked this down to the following commit:
> 
>   commit f31dcb152a3d0816e2f1deab4e64572336da197d
>   Author: Aaron Thompson <dev@xxxxxxxxxx>
>   Date:   Thu Apr 13 17:50:12 2023 +0000
> 
>     sched/clock: Fix local_clock() before sched_clock_init()
>     
>     Have local_clock() return sched_clock() if sched_clock_init() has not
>     yet run. sched_clock_cpu() has this check but it was not included in the
>     new noinstr implementation of local_clock().
> 
>   (https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=f31dcb152a3d0816e2f1deab4e64572336da197d)
> 
> Reverting this commit fixes the problem.
> 
> I don't know _why_ this commit is wrong, but can we revert it as it
> causes serious problems with libguestfs hanging randomly.
> 
> Or if there's anything you want me to try out then let me know,
> because I can reproduce the problem locally quite easily.

Thanks for the report. 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 f31dcb152a3d0816e2f1deab4e64572336da197d
#regzbot title sched/clock: printk.time causes rare kernel boot hangs
#regzbot ignore-activity

This isn't a regression? This issue or a fix for it are already
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