Re: [PATCH] random: Fix kernel panic due to system_wq use before init

[Linus Torvalds]

On Wed, Sep 14, 2016 at 12:14 PM, Waiman Long <waiman.long@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> In the stack backtrace above, the kernel hadn't even reached SMP boot after
> about 50s. That was extremely slow. I tried the 4.7.3 kernel and it booted
> up fine. So I suspect that there may be too many interrupts going on and it
> consumes most of the CPU cycles. The prime suspect is the random driver, I
> think.

Any chance of bisecting it at least partially? The random driver
doesn't do interrupts itself, it just gets called by other drivers
doing intterrupts. So if there are too many of them, that would be
something else..

               Linus