* Roman Gushchin <guro@xxxxxx> [170716 05:55]:
> On Fri, Jul 14, 2017 at 07:23:43PM +0200, Sebastian Reichel wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > On Fri, Jul 14, 2017 at 02:12:21PM +0000, Roman Gushchin wrote:
> > > > On 14 Jul 2017, at 14:43, Sebastian Reichel <sebastian.reichel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > > I just bisected another issue breaking boot on Droid 4. My
> > > > bisect points to 422580c3cea7 (mm/oom_kill.c: add tracepoints
> > > > for oom reaper-related events). It do not see any message
> > > > printed to UART (with earlyprintk) once that commit is part
> > > > of my image. Kernel config is below.
> >
> > > This is really interesting, because this patch adds few
> > > tracepoints and all of them are called from the oom code, which is
> > > hopefully not a part of the boot process.
> > >
> > > Can you, please, confirm, that it can be reproduced with some
> > > confidence? If so, can you, please, eliminate the tracepoints
> > > calls and try to reproduce the boot failure?
> >
> > I can boot 9967468c0a10 ("Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from
> > Andrew)") after adding
> >
> > - http://git.kernel.org/tip/19d39a3810e7032f311ef83effdac40339b9d022
> > (another issue, that breaks Droid 4 boot)
> > - a git revert of 422580c3cea7
> >
> > OTOH there are strange problems. Using da16dd9785f8 + above
> > two commits also works. Using b5e16170f59b + above commits
> > does not work and bisection ended up in the merge commit.
>
> Hi, Sebastian!
>
> As commit 422580c3cea7 hasn't added any code, which is executed
> during the boot process, I could imagine only two options:
> 1) Added code/data occasionally broke some alignment/size contraints.
> 2) There is another instable bug, which compromised bisect results.
>
> Unfortunately, I can't help you with reproducing, because I haven't
> necessary hardware.
>
> Can you, please, try some older known to be good revision with
> the 422580c3cea7 patch applied?
Sebastian, for me droid 4 boots just fine with v4.13-rc1 +
19d39a3810e if that helps. So that's with commit 422580c3cea7.
Regards,
Tony
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