On Thu, Mar 24, 2022 at 09:54:15PM -0500, Bob Tracy wrote: > When I attempt to boot a 5.17.0 kernel built from the kernel.org > sources, I see disk sector errors on my "sda" device, and the boot > process hangs at the point where "systemd-udevd.service" starts. > > Rebooting on 5.16.0 works with no disk I/O errors of any kind. Oh, you can run a 5.16.y kernel on Alpha? I have had problems with everything since 5.9.y with rare, random, corruptions in memory in user space (exhibiting as glibc detected memory corruptions or segfaults). This is why I am still running a 5.8.y kernel on the Debian Ports buildd. I just compiled up a 5.16.y kernel and the problem is still there. It did take a bit to trigger the bug (about 10 hours of testing before it happened). I had done a bisection between 5.8.0 and 5.9.0 last year but I think it went astray (as testing is difficult and not fool proof). You email has prompted me to go back to it and see if I can nail down the offending commit. We really want to get it fixed. Cheers, Michael.
