From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A79A4C32789 for ; Mon, 22 Aug 2022 08:13:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S233621AbiHVINN (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Aug 2022 04:13:13 -0400 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:43080 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S231278AbiHVINL (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Aug 2022 04:13:11 -0400 Received: from mout.gmx.net (mout.gmx.net [212.227.17.21]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3F9961001; Mon, 22 Aug 2022 01:13:10 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=gmx.net; s=badeba3b8450; t=1661155988; bh=VF47xpSy5FMXLFoHD4vWRnBzqe4OlQT5XGbK7tkpYXU=; h=X-UI-Sender-Class:Date:Subject:To:Cc:References:From:In-Reply-To; b=IVQw/rdTWqU73uPZgM+iIdgxTLOl++xT82L4OfB9UYPsnw0lKlNc+xOpoRLuT4Vdp H/5zYEWDEGOr/st/28+/t8Z3KMeE0XrWd650BAx26xzSpE0DLsCH8/OjiebSUdn0yg +XiMw+YtJ+hqyC6ZLsKaSS+KHu5mhoVf0qoDCK38= X-UI-Sender-Class: 01bb95c1-4bf8-414a-932a-4f6e2808ef9c Received: from [0.0.0.0] ([149.28.201.231]) by mail.gmx.net (mrgmx104 [212.227.17.174]) with ESMTPSA (Nemesis) id 1MhD2Y-1p3Cmv0A5q-00eJ17; Mon, 22 Aug 2022 10:13:08 +0200 Message-ID: Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2022 16:13:03 +0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:91.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/91.12.0 Subject: Re: LTS kernel Linux 4.14.290 unable to boot with edk2-ovmf (x86_64 UEFI runtime) Content-Language: en-US To: Greg KH Cc: stable , "linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org" , Linux Kernel Mailing List , linux-x86_64@vger.kernel.org References: <2d6012e8-805d-4225-80ed-d317c28f1899@gmx.com> <1ed5a33a-b667-0e8e-e010-b4365f3713d6@gmx.com> <8aff5c17-d414-2412-7269-c9d15f574037@gmx.com> From: Qu Wenruo In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Provags-ID: V03:K1:sa08DhrSOFunKMqMAgmYyystR5b0QdhInYEnY/iilAcBcCRmr2O jULTD4n6NLrmyiBAHcczjIeXmmZyQQEEYMpjNLtb3WX3FsNCh21G++VRWgbYEL3tStNSTM9 UxmyS3XTy2TxMjvjkp3MHhjyypzKX0n1od5cEx/mhrCoFioEHH+IQ/8Hyd482bazh50ZkOs WKW1E0ma9g1teivfwu3BA== X-UI-Out-Filterresults: notjunk:1;V03:K0:7v3WyKqh90c=:vfXhF5ASvCGzNdxahB2n72 LRcZIHkygQ2OHfY9TL5uMPjXFJcgmh4FgtaM+CqeqSeDBh4nGzHNjRl/qjoXCtFK8jAsy/tCC zgIs/D5uSHKMrW36u4g/Lsv3pDcH/0ER0ZT82VIMo3eVGcBZr5a1x3/eKcm3cA3Y5zOxlLtTC WRVk2//VvPhK9MOYe6/1XwHE40O4sIE2RrhR5t04yJLRZtniVlKnVPaVNuu1n6y70UYap59r/ tZg4JSMDsaCc/VHllbL5PXt+xGfPQPKdGr76c8hAPdvq4miC1NTs9qo1Ut40GrbUdI4xRD9vQ lxUAjOtGC8O1euDaPPnJjN3ms/nFxkNdHIcBmX3ddE+FLCyCfpw0Ms1bLrRIFJlzxjK6CLZvW t6Zm6UTufgmZCYZ1/e//rzw3DWDU+7KFT7xOZXoIpkLxOe981HQ9cXkNYTxgZRSYGCRtQFKAN y0FJ9dC8iOvuXBY3x85f7e6LPcoian2xnIiJbfxPlBREeY2VGMuBXF2Ef5ktJlb5qYX+6clfm 6o0La93oz+hbQ/+Aeb5RebE6tXaVpJndZ2qCE4T3Oun62GjgpTBHYpbF1NKEb+eHjwtcXbCZm XidrB6bmWwcQ8yxuhDq2zZpA8HwBE57wuvBIWGlVwYdSFdqZ/kIuIJmYTl6RcmBVb6B1U7pZ2 FnHvfpJ5N2pJx+T2UslFJEqDVSQPkW/3sgV7WviVCCbE6ffi0JPGLrqyo7wfQMGh/T2zaKiQs pRL33l6HCvgnm6xYV8Ma1RT98BMb59AAvw+YaEh2TrKRNFrLEAW1Yfgg39v49/2sGtAcs1BgC kjbeZ+GF8/vPR5T8JYZ6e9sZC1i5ypfTOyjNy/EDaMs/dwLLx7hBjkmhRCJ6OHCZ0/GuBnUim ZnDfGZL89TWkkpbKl0x5D2Bm+8XvXicMj/vGSZDcTZhcRXiXmveZfWwcVENdzB4cT65YY9iT8 aNCsM3AhDcRP7T6oaxoJ/FWtj0h8Ckm5PMv9F2qQsDYNVAbXo5TDbQic765Y/WMrJLSDhQhvy bv0msPgdcpZBeSXppWWLlpmeihOZCuBWF8chaYL6sc2ziJY7PU2W7hk2dtqy7Sr31rl9kkGoq S81hIZJWwvrWthoeX7x4MUv6bX2ZJDLWPvcvAjPTUtVuh0N6QaZt1EU7oqTe0pxsKZiuncabl peaxYYx6i9YSg6Uye69xXyUcNqXeqzFAEbCF7oBBwqodk9v6Gyg2NLxC++6BDuVlmgf0oemkJ lPiGP+eT2yoJZn4l1+gRG1C622VUpAS7g1oLsCd7Yywen8JCb0chf6/P2iU2qeekmINa8atdl 7Rj7xICUyqs3mJBFfxCBN9g1RDXFuA== Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org On 2022/8/22 15:58, Greg KH wrote: > On Mon, Aug 22, 2022 at 03:49:51PM +0800, Qu Wenruo wrote: >> >> >> On 2022/8/22 15:33, Greg KH wrote: >>> On Mon, Aug 22, 2022 at 03:24:53PM +0800, Qu Wenruo wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> On 2022/8/22 14:25, Greg KH wrote: >>>>> On Mon, Aug 22, 2022 at 09:15:59AM +0800, Qu Wenruo wrote: >>>>>> Hi, >>>>>> >>>>>> When backporting some btrfs specific patches to all LTS kernels, I = found >>>>>> v4.14.290 kernel unable to boot as a KVM guest with edk2-ovmf >>>>>> (edk2-ovmf: 202205, qemu 7.0.0, libvirt 1:8.6.0). >>>>>> >>>>>> While all other LTS/stable branches (4.19.x, 5.4.x, 5.10.x, 5.15.x, >>>>>> 5.18.x, 5.19.x) can boot without a hipccup. >>>>>> >>>>>> I tried the following configs, but none of them can even provide an >>>>>> early output: >>>>>> >>>>>> - CONFIG_X86_VERBOSE_BOOTUP >>>>>> - CONFIG_EARLY_PRINTK >>>>>> - CONFIG_EARLY_PRINTK_EFI >>>>>> >>>>>> Is this a known bug or something new? >>>>> >>>>> Has this ever worked properly on this very old kernel tree? If so, = can >>>>> you use 'git bisect' to find the offending commit? >>>> >>>> Unfortunately the initial v4.14 from upstream can not even be compile= d. >>> >>> Really? Try using an older version of gcc and you should be fine. It >>> did build properly back in 2017 when it was released :) >> >> Yeah, I'm pretty sure my toolchain is too new for v4.14.0. But my distr= o >> only provides the latest and mostly upstream packages. >> >> It may be a even worse disaster to find a way to rollback to older >> toolchains using my distro... >> >> Also my hardware may not be well suited for older kernels either. >> (Zen 3 CPU used here) >> >> In fact, I even find it hard just to locate a v4.14.x tag that can comp= ile. >> After some bisection between v4.14.x tags, only v4.14.268 and newer tag= s >> can even be compiled using latest toolchain. >> (But still tons of warning, and tons of objdump warnings against >> insn_get_length()). >> >> I'm not sure what's the normal practice for backports to such old branc= h. >> >> Do you stable guys keep dedicated VMs loaded with older distro just for >> these old branches? > > I don't, that's why those kernels can be built with newer versions of > gcc. > > Your distro should have a version of gcc-10 or gcc-9 that can be > installed, right? This may sounds like a meme, but I'm really using Archlinux for my VM and host, and it doesn't provide older GCC at all. > Or maybe use the gcc versions on kernel.org that only > work for kernel builds? > >> If so, any recommendation on those kinda retro distro? > > Try installing an old version of Debian, or better yet, use a distro > that provides old versions of gcc :) I guess that's the only way to go. Thanks for all the advice, Qu > > good luck! > > greg k-h