Re: [REGRESSION] Power9 pseries boot hang in v7.2-rc6, narrowed to PowerPC GENERIC_ENTRY conversion window

[Thorsten Leemhuis]

On 8/12/26 07:16, Venkat Rao Bagalkote wrote:
> On 11/08/26 6:16 pm, Mukesh Kumar Chaurasiya wrote:
>> On Tue, Aug 11, 2026 at 11:37:45AM +0530, Mukesh Kumar Chaurasiya wrote:
>>> On Mon, Aug 10, 2026 at 05:19:27PM +0530, Venkat Rao Bagalkote wrote:
>>>> On 04/08/26 8:23 pm, Shrikanth Hegde wrote:
>>>>> On 8/4/26 2:04 PM, Venkat Rao Bagalkote wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I'm seeing a boot regression on a Power9 pseries LPAR. The system
>>>>>> hangs very early during boot after:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Quiescing Open Firmware ...
>>>>>> Booting Linux via __start() ...
>>>>>>
>>>>> That is strange. not sure where to look at without any logs.
>>>>> Is it a specific config that fails or this specific LPAR that fails?
>>>>>
>>> Is this a specific lpar or all power9 pseries are exhibiting same
>>> behaviour?
> Its specific to a lpar.
>>
>> Can you try the below fix?
> [...]
>
> I tired this fix, but issue still persists.
This regression made it to my list of tracked regression -- and it looks
like this stalled. Is that the case? Or was this resolved meanwhile?

Ciao, Thorsten