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From: "Ahmed S. Darwish" <a.darwish@linutronix.de>
To: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Keith Busch <kbusch@kernel.org>,
	linux-nvme@lists.infradead.org, Sagi Grimberg <sagi@grimberg.me>,
	Chaitanya Kulkarni <chaitanya.kulkarni@wdc.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: v5.9-rc1 commit reliably breaks pci nvme detection
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2020 19:07:29 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200820170729.GA4116@lx-t490> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2356f514-9408-6a6f-871d-046984963533@kernel.dk>

On Thu, Aug 20, 2020 at 09:35:38AM -0600, Jens Axboe wrote:
> On 8/17/20 9:58 AM, Jens Axboe wrote:
> > On 8/17/20 8:56 AM, Keith Busch wrote:
> >> On Mon, Aug 17, 2020 at 03:50:11PM +0200, Ahmed S. Darwish wrote:
> >>> Hello,
> >>>
> >>> Below v5.9-rc1 commit reliably breaks my boot on a Thinkpad e480
> >>> laptop. PCI nvme detection fails, and the kernel becomes not able
> >>> anymore to find the rootfs / parse "root=".
> >>>
> >>> Bisecting v5.8=>v5.9-rc1 blames that commit. Reverting it *reliably*
> >>> fixes the problem and makes me able to boot v5.9-rc1.
> >>
> >> The fix is staged in the nvme tree here:
> >>
> >>   http://git.infradead.org/nvme.git/commit/286155561ecd13b6c85a78eaf2880d3baea03b9e
> >
> > That would have been nice to have in -rc1...
>
> And now we're getting very close to shipping items for -rc2, and it's still
> not in. Can we please get the nvme pull request out for -rc2?
>

I keep wondering that myself. Completely breaking the boot like this is
really not nice -- and for x86-64 laptops no less :-(

The fix is really small and isolated. "Urgent pull requests", containing
only a fix or two, were created *exactly* for this reson...

Thanks,

--
Ahmed S. Darwish
Linutronix GmbH

  reply	other threads:[~2020-08-20 17:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-08-17 13:50 v5.9-rc1 commit reliably breaks pci nvme detection Ahmed S. Darwish
2020-08-17 15:56 ` Keith Busch
2020-08-17 15:58   ` Jens Axboe
2020-08-20 15:35     ` Jens Axboe
2020-08-20 17:07       ` Ahmed S. Darwish [this message]
2020-08-20 17:10         ` Jens Axboe
2020-08-20 17:12           ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-08-20 17:14             ` Jens Axboe
2020-08-21  7:28             ` John Garry

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