Re: kernel 6.2 stuck at boot (efi_call_rts) on arm64

[Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>]

On Thu, 16 Mar 2023 at 12:34, Andrea Righi <andrea.righi@canonical.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Mar 16, 2023 at 11:18:21AM +0100, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> > On Thu, 16 Mar 2023 at 11:03, Andrea Righi <andrea.righi@canonical.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Thu, Mar 16, 2023 at 10:55:58AM +0100, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> > > > (cc Darren)
> > > >
> > > > On Thu, 16 Mar 2023 at 10:45, Andrea Righi <andrea.righi@canonical.com> wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > On Thu, Mar 16, 2023 at 08:58:20AM +0100, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> > > > > > Hello Andrea,
> > > > > >
> > > > > > On Thu, 16 Mar 2023 at 08:54, Andrea Righi <andrea.righi@canonical.com> wrote:
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > Hello,
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > the latest v6.2.6 kernel fails to boot on some arm64 systems, the kernel
> > > > > > > gets stuck and never completes the boot. On the console I see this:
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > [   72.043484] rcu: INFO: rcu_preempt detected stalls on CPUs/tasks:
> > > > > > > [   72.049571] rcu:     22-...0: (30 GPs behind) idle=b10c/1/0x4000000000000000 softirq=164/164 fqs=6443
> > > > > > > [   72.058520]     (detected by 28, t=15005 jiffies, g=449, q=174 ncpus=32)
> > > > > > > [   72.064949] Task dump for CPU 22:
> > > > > > > [   72.068251] task:kworker/u64:5   state:R  running task     stack:0     pid:447   ppid:2      flags:0x0000000a
> > > > > > > [   72.078156] Workqueue: efi_rts_wq efi_call_rts
> > > > > > > [   72.082595] Call trace:
> > > > > > > [   72.085029]  __switch_to+0xbc/0x100
> > > > > > > [   72.088508]  0xffff80000fe83d4c
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > After that, as a consequence, I start to get a lot of hung task timeout traces.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > I tried to bisect the problem and I found that the offending commit is
> > > > > > > this one:
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > >  e7b813b32a42 ("efi: random: refresh non-volatile random seed when RNG is initialized")
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > I've reverted this commit for now and everything works just fine, but I
> > > > > > > was wondering if the problem could be caused by a lack of entropy on
> > > > > > > these arm64 boxes or something else.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > Any suggestion? Let me know if you want me to do any specific test.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Thanks for the report.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > This is most likely the EFI SetVariable() call going off into the
> > > > > > weeds and never returning.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Is this an Ampere Altra system by any chance? Do you see it on
> > > > > > different types of hardware?
> > > > >
> > > > > This is: Ampere eMAG / Lenovo ThinkSystem HR330a.
> > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Could you check whether SetVariable works on this system? E.g. by
> > > > > > updating the EFI boot timeout (sudo efibootmgr -t <n>)?
> > > > >
> > > > > ubuntu@kuzzle:~$ sudo efibootmgr -t 10
> > > > > ^C^C^C^C
> > > > >
> > > > > ^ Stuck there, so it really looks like SetVariable is the problem.
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > > Could you please share the output of
> > > >
> > > > dmidecode -s bios
> > > > dmidecode -s system-family
> > >
> > > $ sudo dmidecode -s bios-vendor
> > > LENOVO
> > > $ sudo dmidecode -s bios-version
> > > hve104r-1.15
> > > $ sudo dmidecode -s bios-release-date
> > > 02/26/2021
> > > $ sudo dmidecode -s bios-revision
> > > 1.15
> > > $ sudo dmidecode -s system-family
> > > Lenovo ThinkSystem HR330A/HR350A
> > >
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Mind checking if this patch fixes your issue as well?
> >
> > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ardb/linux.git/commit/?h=altra-fix&id=77fa99dd4741456da85049c13ec31a148f5f5ac0
>
> Unfortunately this doesn't seem to be enough, I'm still getting the same
> problem also with this patch applied.
>

Thanks for trying.

How about the last 3 patches on this branch?

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ardb/linux.git/log/?h=efi-smbios-altra-fix