Hi Christoph, I've found a boot regression when ran my allmodconfig kernel on tag v5.15-rc1 I've bisected it down to commit f9259be6a9e7 ("init: allow mounting arbitrary non-blockdevice filesystems as root"), see the bisect log [1]. my qemu cmdline looks like this: qemu-system-aarch64 --enable-kvm -cpu cortex-a53 -kernel Image-bisect-1.gz -serial stdio -monitor none -nographic -m 2G -M virt -fsdev local,id=root,path=/srv/kvm/tmp/stretch/arm64,security_model=none,writeout=immediate -device virtio-rng-pci -device virtio-9p-pci,fsdev=root,mount_tag=/dev/root -append "root=/dev/root rootfstype=9p rootflags=trans=virtio console=ttyAMA0,38400n8 earlycon=pl011,0x9000000 initcall_debug softlockup_panic=0 security=none kpti=no" This is a boot log snippet from [2]: [ 58.925779][ T1] random: get_random_u32 called from kobject_release+0x44/0x180 with crng_init=0 [ 58.925965][ T1] kobject: 'devlink' (ffff000007efb200): kobject_release, parent 0000000000000000 (delayed 750) [ 58.937915][ T1] kobject: 'amba:9030000.pl061--platform:gpio-keys' (ffff000008496830): kobject_release, parent 0000000000000000 (delayed 500) [ 58.945685][ T1] random: get_random_u32 called from shuffle_freelist+0x44/0x1c0 with crng_init=0 [ 59.089658][ T1] ALSA device list: [ 59.092985][ T1] No soundcards found. [ 59.114787][ T1] uart-pl011 9000000.pl011: no DMA platform data [ 59.158409][ T1] 9pnet_virtio: no channels available for device root [ 59.163398][ T1] Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root "root" (9p), err=-2 [ 59.166946][ T1] CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Tainted: G W T 5.15.0-rc1 #1 ceb9159c1f47670faf7c7354800b02e393522bde [ 59.171816][ T1] Hardware name: linux,dummy-virt (DT) [ 59.174091][ T1] Call trace: [ 59.175561][ T1] dump_backtrace+0x0/0x340 [ 59.177509][ T1] show_stack+0x28/0x80 [ 59.179333][ T1] dump_stack_lvl+0x88/0xd8 [ 59.181274][ T1] dump_stack+0x1c/0x44 [ 59.183101][ T1] panic+0x1f0/0x420 [ 59.184806][ T1] mount_nodev_root+0x1ac/0x260 [ 59.186907][ T1] mount_root+0x288/0x388 [ 59.188781][ T1] prepare_namespace+0x2fc/0x368 [ 59.190904][ T1] kernel_init_freeable+0x318/0x370 [ 59.193140][ T1] kernel_init+0x24/0x180 [ 59.195132][ T1] ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20 [ 59.197741][ T1] Kernel Offset: disabled [ 59.199770][ T1] CPU features: 0x00001001,00000846 [ 59.202082][ T1] Memory Limit: none [ 59.203923][ T1] ---[ end Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root "root" (9p), err=-2 ]--- When I reverted, the two patches below it booted fine. 6e7c1770a212 ("fs: simplify get_filesystem_list / get_all_fs_names") f9259be6a9e7 ("init: allow mounting arbitrary non-blockdevice filesystems as root") Do you have any idea what is going on here? Cheers, Anders [1] http://ix.io/3Aod [2] http://ix.io/3Aoh