Re: [LKP] [mm] 68c37ccedc: BUG:kernel_hang_in_early-boot_stage,last_printk:early_console_in_setup_code

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Mon Oct 29 2018 - 18:47:17 EST


On Mon, 29 Oct 2018 21:15:01 +0800 kernel test robot <rong.a.chen@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> FYI, we noticed the following commit (built with gcc-7):
>
> commit: 68c37ccedcde10514898f4ba3b28c0de85c590d1 ("mm: nobootmem: remove bootmem allocation APIs")
> https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next.git master
>
> in testcase: boot
>
> on test machine: qemu-system-x86_64 -enable-kvm -cpu host -smp 2 -m 2G
>
> caused below changes (please refer to attached dmesg/kmsg for entire log/backtrace):
>
>
> +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+------------+------------+
> | | 6881a1e729 | 68c37ccedc |
> +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+------------+------------+
> | boot_successes | 4 | 0 |
> | boot_failures | 0 | 4 |
> | BUG:kernel_hang_in_early-boot_stage,last_printk:early_console_in_setup_code | 0 | 4 |
> +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+------------+------------+

Well that's irritating.

Does the problem remain when the entire patch series is applied?

mm-remove-config_no_bootmem.patch
mm-remove-config_no_bootmem-fix.patch
mm-remove-config_have_memblock.patch
mm-remove-config_have_memblock-fix.patch
mm-remove-config_have_memblock-fix-2.patch
mm-remove-config_have_memblock-fix-3.patch
mm-remove-bootmem-allocator-implementation.patch
mm-nobootmem-remove-dead-code.patch
memblock-rename-memblock_alloc_nid_try_nid-to-memblock_phys_alloc.patch
memblock-remove-_virt-from-apis-returning-virtual-address.patch
memblock-replace-alloc_bootmem_align-with-memblock_alloc.patch
memblock-replace-alloc_bootmem_low-with-memblock_alloc_low.patch
memblock-replace-__alloc_bootmem_node_nopanic-with-memblock_alloc_try_nid_nopanic.patch
memblock-replace-alloc_bootmem_pages_nopanic-with-memblock_alloc_nopanic.patch
memblock-replace-alloc_bootmem_low-with-memblock_alloc_low-2.patch
memblock-replace-__alloc_bootmem_nopanic-with-memblock_alloc_from_nopanic.patch
memblock-add-align-parameter-to-memblock_alloc_node.patch
memblock-replace-alloc_bootmem_pages_node-with-memblock_alloc_node.patch
memblock-replace-__alloc_bootmem_node-with-appropriate-memblock_-api.patch
memblock-replace-alloc_bootmem_node-with-memblock_alloc_node.patch
memblock-replace-alloc_bootmem_low_pages-with-memblock_alloc_low.patch
memblock-replace-alloc_bootmem_pages-with-memblock_alloc.patch
memblock-replace-__alloc_bootmem-with-memblock_alloc_from.patch
memblock-replace-alloc_bootmem-with-memblock_alloc.patch
mm-nobootmem-remove-bootmem-allocation-apis.patch
memblock-replace-free_bootmem_node-with-memblock_free.patch
memblock-replace-free_bootmem_late-with-memblock_free_late.patch
memblock-rename-free_all_bootmem-to-memblock_free_all.patch
memblock-rename-__free_pages_bootmem-to-memblock_free_pages.patch
mm-remove-nobootmem.patch
memblock-replace-bootmem_alloc_-with-memblock-variants.patch
mm-remove-include-linux-bootmemh.patch
mm-remove-include-linux-bootmemh-fix.patch
mm-remove-include-linux-bootmemh-fix-2.patch
mm-remove-include-linux-bootmemh-fix-3.patch
docs-boot-time-mm-remove-bootmem-documentation.patch