Re: [PATCH 5.15 000/251] 5.15.47-rc2 review

From: Suzuki K Poulose
Date: Thu Jun 16 2022 - 04:05:09 EST


On 15/06/2022 14:38, Jan Kara wrote:
On Wed 15-06-22 13:00:22, Jan Kara wrote:
On Tue 14-06-22 12:00:22, Linus Torvalds wrote:
On Tue, Jun 14, 2022 at 11:51 AM Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Or just make sure that noop_backing_dev_info is fully initialized
before it's used.

I don't see any real reason why that

err = bdi_init(&noop_backing_dev_info);

couldn't just be done very early. Maybe as the first call in
driver_init(), before the whole devtmpfs_init() etc.

I've checked the dependencies and cgroups (which are the only non-trivial
dependency besides per-CPU infrastructure) are initialized early enough so
it should work fine. So let's try that.

Attached patch boots for me. Guys, who was able to reproduce the failure: Can
you please confirm this patch fixes your problem?

Honza

Works for me too

Tested-by: Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@xxxxxxx>