x86: Boot failure on select chromebooks with v6.15-rc5

From: Vignesh Raman
Date: Fri May 09 2025 - 01:56:19 EST


Hi,

With v6.15-rc5, the below chromebooks were not booting with the following message. These tests were run in drm-ci.

Starting kernel ...
[ 1.843801] ? __pfx_kernel_init+0x10/0x10
[ 1.909838] ? __pfx_kernel_init+0x10/0x10

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/vigneshraman/linux/-/pipelines/1420485

Failing jobs:
amdgpu:stoney (AMD Stoney Ridge chipset): https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/vigneshraman/linux/-/jobs/76000926

i915:amly (64 bit Intel Whiskey Lake): https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/vigneshraman/linux/-/jobs/76000929

i915:whl (64 bit Intel Amber Lake): https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/vigneshraman/linux/-/jobs/76000931

These tests were passing till v6.14-rc7, and the issue was seen starting in v6.15-rc1. This issue is seen only with these 3 boards and does not affect other chromebooks (the pipeline log shows the other i915 driver tests).

On bisecting the commits, the commit which introduced this issue is,
3181424aeac2f6596534bf43021a10eae294a9b0 x86/early_printk: Add support for MMIO-based UARTs

After reverting the below commits in v6.15-rc5, the board boots and tests are executed:
3181424aeac2 x86/early_printk: Add support for MMIO-based UARTs
996457176bb7 x86/early_printk: Use 'mmio32' for consistency, fix comments (this fixes 3181424aeac2)

pipeline after reverting the commits,
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/vigneshraman/linux/-/pipelines/1420493

Please could you look into this issue. Thank you.

Regards,
Vignesh