Re: [Bug 206175] Fedora >= 5.4 kernels instantly freeze on boot without producing any display output

From: Artem S. Tashkinov
Date: Wed Mar 11 2020 - 11:48:28 EST




On 3/11/20 3:43 PM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
On Wed, Mar 11, 2020 at 03:34:38PM +0000, Artem S. Tashkinov wrote:
On 3/11/20 3:24 PM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
pdev->dma_mask = parent->dma_mask ? *parent->dma_mask : 0;

This patch makes no difference.

The kernel panics with the same call trace which starts with:

This looks really strange and not dma mask related, but there must be
some odd interactions somewhere.

Can you call gdb on the vmlinux file for the 5.5.8-200.fc31 kernel
in the jpg and then do

l *(kmem_cache_alloc_trace+0x7e)

l *(acpi_processor_add+0x3a)

and send the output?


I'm not sure I can call or do anything because the system is dead and
I'm looking at the kernel panic message. The console is dead. The root
file system is not yet mounted. Initrd can't be loaded either. I have no
COM port/console. I have no debugging abilities whatsoever. I can only
compile kernels and try running them.