Re: [PATCH 5.10 000/149] 5.10.156-rc1 review

[Naresh Kamboju]

On Fri, 25 Nov 2022 at 12:57, Greg Kroah-Hartman
<gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Nov 24, 2022 at 09:17:36PM +0530, Naresh Kamboju wrote:
> > On Wed, 23 Nov 2022 at 19:30, Naresh Kamboju <naresh.kamboju@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Wed, 23 Nov 2022 at 14:50, Greg Kroah-Hartman
> > > <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 5.10.156 release.
> > > > There are 149 patches in this series, all will be posted as a response
> > > > to this one.  If anyone has any issues with these being applied, please
> > > > let me know.
> > > >
> > > > Responses should be made by Fri, 25 Nov 2022 08:45:20 +0000.
> > > > Anything received after that time might be too late.
> > > >
> > > > The whole patch series can be found in one patch at:
> > > >         https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/stable-review/patch-5.10.156-rc1.gz
> > > > or in the git tree and branch at:
> > > >         git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git linux-5.10.y
> > > > and the diffstat can be found below.
> > > >
> > > > thanks,
> > > >
> > > > greg k-h
> > >
> > >
> > > With stable rc 5.10.156-rc1 Raspberry Pi 4 Model B failed to boot due to
> > > following warnings / errors [1]. The NFS mount failed and failed to boot.
> > >
> > > I have to bisect this problem.
> >
> > Daniel bisected this reported problem and found the first bad commit,
> >
> > YueHaibing <yuehaibing@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >     net: broadcom: Fix BCMGENET Kconfig
>
> But that is in 5.10.155, 5.15.79, 6.0.9, and 6.1-rc5.  It is not new to
> this -rc release.

It started from 5.10.155 and this is only seen on 5.10 and other
branches 5.15, 6.0 and mainline are looking good.

>
> What config options are being set because of this that cause the
> problem?

LKFT is built with arm64 defconfig + distro configs as described below.

>   Should it just be reverted for 5.10.y, and not the other
> branches?  Or for everywhere including Linus's tree?

Reverting for 5.10 works for Rpi-4 to boot.

Due to the problematic commit
      # CONFIG_BROADCOM_PHY is not set
and Raspberry Pi 4 boot failed only on 5.10.155 and later.

--

diff -Narub good-config bad-config
--- good-config 2022-11-09 14:19:58.000000000 +0530
+++ bad-config 2022-11-16 15:50:36.000000000 +0530
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 #
 # Automatically generated file; DO NOT EDIT.
-# Linux/arm64 5.10.154-rc2 Kernel Configuration
+# Linux/arm64 5.10.155 Kernel Configuration
 #
 CONFIG_CC_VERSION_TEXT="aarch64-linux-gnu-gcc (Debian 11.3.0-6) 11.3.0"
 CONFIG_CC_IS_GCC=y
@@ -2611,7 +2611,7 @@
 # CONFIG_ADIN_PHY is not set
 CONFIG_AQUANTIA_PHY=y
 # CONFIG_AX88796B_PHY is not set
-CONFIG_BROADCOM_PHY=y
+# CONFIG_BROADCOM_PHY is not set
 # CONFIG_BCM54140_PHY is not set
 CONFIG_BCM7XXX_PHY=y
 # CONFIG_BCM84881_PHY is not set

---

# To install tuxmake on your system globally:
# sudo pip3 install -U tuxmake
#
# See https://docs.tuxmake.org/ for complete documentation.
# Original tuxmake command with fragments listed below.
# tuxmake --runtime podman --target-arch arm64 --toolchain gcc-11
--kconfig defconfig --kconfig-add
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Linaro/meta-lkft/kirkstone/meta/recipes-kernel/linux/files/lkft.config
--kconfig-add https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Linaro/meta-lkft/kirkstone/meta/recipes-kernel/linux/files/lkft-crypto.config
--kconfig-add https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Linaro/meta-lkft/kirkstone/meta/recipes-kernel/linux/files/distro-overrides.config
--kconfig-add https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Linaro/meta-lkft/kirkstone/meta/recipes-kernel/linux/files/systemd.config
--kconfig-add https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Linaro/meta-lkft/kirkstone/meta/recipes-kernel/linux/files/virtio.config
--kconfig-add CONFIG_ARM64_MODULE_PLTS=y --kconfig-add
CONFIG_SYN_COOKIES=y --kconfig-add CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS=y
CROSS_COMPILE_COMPAT=arm-linux-gnueabihf-

Bad config link,
https://builds.tuxbuild.com/2HcnnvEDD3gSr1zmS5DHzqPG2cJ/config

>
> thanks,
>
> greg k-h

- Naresh