Re: How to debug DEBUG_TEST_DRIVER_REMOVE hang during loading of kernel?

[Maarten Maathuis]

Anyone have advice where else I can ask?

On Sat, Oct 29, 2016 at 1:07 PM, Maarten Maathuis <madman2003@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Anyone have suggestions?
>
> On Thu, Oct 27, 2016 at 8:42 PM, Maarten Maathuis <madman2003@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I recently had trouble with loading a 4.9rcX kernel, which was hanging
>> after loading the initial kernel ramdisk. After some painful bisecting
>> I found this:
>>
>> bea5b158ff0da9c7246ff391f754f5f38e34577a is the first bad commit
>> commit bea5b158ff0da9c7246ff391f754f5f38e34577a
>> Author: Rob Herring <robh@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> Date:   Thu Aug 11 10:20:58 2016 -0500
>>
>>     driver core: add test of driver remove calls during probe
>>
>>     In recent discussions on ksummit-discuss[1], it was suggested to do a
>>     sequence of probe, remove, probe for testing driver remove paths. This
>>     adds a kconfig option for said test.
>>
>>     [1] https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/ksummit-discuss/2016-August/003459.html
>>
>>     Suggested-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
>>     Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>     Signed-off-by: Rob Herring <robh@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>     Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> It turns out that the package i was using to build the kernel had
>> DEBUG_TEST_DRIVER_REMOVE enabled.
>>
>> How do I actually figure out why this test causes a hang. I don't have
>> a COM port available to use as serial console, and i don't know if it
>> would even help.
>>
>> Please CC me as i'm not a member of this mailinglist.
>>
>> Maarten.
>>
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