On Mon, Sep 13, 2021 at 06:46:08PM -0500, Bjorn Helgaas wrote: > On Mon, Sep 13, 2021 at 10:18:18AM -0400, Dave Jones wrote: > > On Sun, Sep 12, 2021 at 04:58:27PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > So 5.15 isn't shaping up to be a particularly large release, at least > > > in number of commits. At only just over 10k non-merge commits, this is > > > in fact the smallest rc1 we have had in the 5.x series. We're usually > > > hovering in the 12-14k commit range. > > > > This release takes over two minutes longer to boot on one my > > machines than 5.14. The time just seems to be unaccounted for, even > > with initcall_debug > > Sorry for the inconvenience of this, and thank you very much for doing > the bisection to track it down. > > We *could* revert 7bac54497c3e, but it'd be messy because a bunch of > follow-up stuff depends on it. > > I propose something like the patch below. Would you mind trying it > out? This also fixes the problem for me. Dave