[BUG][BISECTED] Freeze at loading init ramdisk

[Mirsad Todorovac]

On 1/18/24 22:14, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 18, 2024 at 09:04:05PM +0100, Mirsad Todorovac wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 1/18/24 08:45, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
>>> Hello Mirsad,
>>>
>>> On Wed, Jan 17, 2024 at 07:47:49PM +0100, Mirsad Todorovac wrote:
>>>> On 1/16/24 01:32, Mirsad Todorovac wrote:
>>>>> On the Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Jammy platform, on a mainline vanilla torvalds tree kernel, the boot
>>>>> freezes upon first two lines and before any systemd messages.
>>>>>
>>>>> (Please find the config attached.)
>>>>>
>>>>> Bisecting the bug led to this result:
>>>>>
>>>>> marvin at defiant:~/linux/kernel/linux_torvalds$ git bisect good
>>>>> d97a78423c33f68ca6543de510a409167baed6f5 is the first bad commit
>>>>> commit d97a78423c33f68ca6543de510a409167baed6f5
>>>>> Merge: 61da593f4458 689237ab37c5
>>>>> Author: Linus Torvalds <torvalds at linux-foundation.org>
>>>>> Date:   Fri Jan 12 14:38:08 2024 -0800
>>>>>
>>>>> [...]
>>>>>
>>>>> Hope this helps.
>>>>
>>>> P.S.
>>>>
>>>> As I see that this is a larger merge commit, with 5K+ lines changed, I don't think I can
>>>> bisect further to determine the culprit.
>>>
>>> Actually it's not that hard. If a merge commit is the first bad commit
>>> for a bisection, either the merge wasn't done correctly (less likely,
>>> looking at d97a78423c33f68ca6543de510a409167baed6f5 I'd bet this isn't
>>> the problem); or changes on different sides conflict or you did
>>> something wrong during bisection.
>>>
>>> To rule out the third option, you can just retest d97a78423c33,
>>> 61da593f4458 and 689237ab37c5. If d97a78423c33 is the only bad one, you
>>> did it right.
>>
>> This was confirmed.
>>
>>> Then to further debug the second option you can find out the offending
>>> commit on each side with a bisection as follows, here for the RHS (i.e.
>>> 689237ab37c5):
>>>
>>> 	git bisect start 689237ab37c5 $(git merge-base 61da593f4458 689237ab37c5)
>>>
>>> and then in each bisection step do:
>>>
>>> 	git merge --no-commit 61da593f4458
>>> 	test if the problem is present
>>> 	git reset --hard
>>> 	git bisect good/bad
>>>
>>> In this case you get merge conflicts in drivers/video/fbdev/amba-clcd.c
>>> and drivers/video/fbdev/vermilion/vermilion.c. In the assumption that
>>> you don't have these enabled in your .config, you can just ignore these.
>>>
>>> Side note: A problem during bisection can be that the .config changes
>>> along the process. You should put your config into (say)
>>> arch/x86/configs/lala_defconfig and do
>>>
>>> 	make lala_defconfig
>>>
>>> before building each step to prevent this.
>>
>> I must have done something wrong:
>>
>> marvin at defiant:~/linux/kernel/linux_torvalds$ git bisect log
>> # bad: [689237ab37c59b9909bc9371d7fece3081683fba] fbdev/intelfb: Remove driver
>> # good: [de927f6c0b07d9e698416c5b287c521b07694cac] Merge tag 's390-6.8-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/s390/linux
>> git bisect start '689237ab37c5' 'de927f6c0b07d9e698416c5b287c521b07694cac'
>> # good: [d9f25b59ed85ae45801cf45fe17eb269b0ef3038] fbdev: Remove support for Carillo Ranch driver
>> git bisect good d9f25b59ed85ae45801cf45fe17eb269b0ef3038
>> # good: [e2e0b838a1849f92612a8305c09aaf31bf824350] video/sticore: Remove info field from STI struct
>> git bisect good e2e0b838a1849f92612a8305c09aaf31bf824350
>> # good: [778e73d2411abc8f3a2d60dbf038acaec218792e] drm/hyperv: Remove firmware framebuffers with aperture helper
>> git bisect good 778e73d2411abc8f3a2d60dbf038acaec218792e
>> # good: [df67699c9cb0ceb70f6cc60630ca938c06773eda] firmware/sysfb: Clear screen_info state after consuming it
>> git bisect good df67699c9cb0ceb70f6cc60630ca938c06773eda
>> marvin at defiant:~/linux/kernel/linux_torvalds$
>>
>> with the error:
>>
>> marvin at defiant:~/linux/kernel/linux_torvalds$ git bisect good
>> Bisecting: 0 revisions left to test after this (roughly 0 steps)
>> drivers/video/fbdev/amba-clcd.c: needs merge
>> drivers/video/fbdev/vermilion/vermilion.c: needs merge
>> error: you need to resolve your current index first
> 
> It seems you forgot the "git reset --hard" step.  Doing it in this state
> should still be possible.

Well, it was possible, but I obviously got the wrong result:

marvin at defiant:~/linux/kernel/linux_torvalds$ git bisect log
# bad: [689237ab37c59b9909bc9371d7fece3081683fba] fbdev/intelfb: Remove driver
# good: [de927f6c0b07d9e698416c5b287c521b07694cac] Merge tag 's390-6.8-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/s390/linux
git bisect start '689237ab37c5' 'de927f6c0b07d9e698416c5b287c521b07694cac'
# good: [d9f25b59ed85ae45801cf45fe17eb269b0ef3038] fbdev: Remove support for Carillo Ranch driver
git bisect good d9f25b59ed85ae45801cf45fe17eb269b0ef3038
# good: [e2e0b838a1849f92612a8305c09aaf31bf824350] video/sticore: Remove info field from STI struct
git bisect good e2e0b838a1849f92612a8305c09aaf31bf824350
# good: [778e73d2411abc8f3a2d60dbf038acaec218792e] drm/hyperv: Remove firmware framebuffers with aperture helper
git bisect good 778e73d2411abc8f3a2d60dbf038acaec218792e
# good: [df67699c9cb0ceb70f6cc60630ca938c06773eda] firmware/sysfb: Clear screen_info state after consuming it
git bisect good df67699c9cb0ceb70f6cc60630ca938c06773eda
# good: [df67699c9cb0ceb70f6cc60630ca938c06773eda] firmware/sysfb: Clear screen_info state after consuming it
git bisect good df67699c9cb0ceb70f6cc60630ca938c06773eda
# good: [c25a19afb81cfd73dab494ba64f9a434cf1a4499] fbdev/hyperv_fb: Do not clear global screen_info
git bisect good c25a19afb81cfd73dab494ba64f9a434cf1a4499
# first bad commit: [689237ab37c59b9909bc9371d7fece3081683fba] fbdev/intelfb: Remove driver
marvin at defiant:~/linux/kernel/linux_torvalds$ uname -rms
Linux 6.7.0-initrd-retest-02751-g689237ab37c5 x86_64
marvin at defiant:~/linux/kernel/linux_torvalds$

... meaning, I get the 689237ab37c5 as "first bad commit" but it boots.

If you see an obvious error, it would be helpful, otherwise I might retry the bisect, but later.

I am puzzled, but bisecting a merge commit is my first attempt at this.

Best regards,
Mirsad