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

From: Thorsten Leemhuis

Date: Fri Sep 04 2026 - 12:40:10 EST


On 9/4/26 07:43, Mukesh Kumar Chaurasiya wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 03, 2026 at 01:22:35PM +0200, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
>> 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.
>
> I am working on this, [...]
Great, thx.
> Can you also confirm the same.
Na, sorry, can't help, I'm not affected, I'm just keeping an eye on
regression to ensure they are fixed.

Ciao, Thorsten