From: Andrea Righi <andrea.righi@canonical.com>
To: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Cc: "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>,
Paolo Pisati <paolo.pisati@canonical.com>,
linux-efi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: kernel 6.2 stuck at boot (efi_call_rts) on arm64
Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2023 10:45:17 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZBLlLRVVxCbZfEJd@righiandr-XPS-13-7390> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAMj1kXHYqMdis99D3OaKf51eoCDW2+5NfcUEbF4Zrau4BcKgsQ@mail.gmail.com>
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.
Thanks,
-Andrea
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-03-16 9:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-03-16 7:54 kernel 6.2 stuck at boot (efi_call_rts) on arm64 Andrea Righi
2023-03-16 7:58 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2023-03-16 9:45 ` Andrea Righi [this message]
2023-03-16 9:55 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2023-03-16 10:03 ` Andrea Righi
2023-03-16 10:18 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2023-03-16 11:33 ` Andrea Righi
2023-03-16 12:21 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2023-03-16 12:38 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2023-03-16 12:41 ` Andrea Righi
2023-03-16 12:43 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2023-03-16 12:49 ` Andrea Righi
2023-03-16 13:45 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2023-03-16 13:46 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2023-03-16 13:50 ` Andrea Righi
2023-03-16 13:53 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2023-03-16 13:59 ` Andrea Righi
2023-03-16 14:06 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2023-03-16 14:08 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2023-03-16 14:25 ` Andrea Righi
2023-03-16 17:52 ` Andrea Righi
2023-03-16 18:55 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2023-03-16 18:57 ` Andrea Righi
2023-03-16 22:28 ` Darren Hart
2023-03-18 10:35 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2023-03-20 18:00 ` Darren Hart
2023-04-13 20:24 ` Andrea Righi
2023-04-17 22:05 ` Darren Hart
2023-04-18 5:42 ` Andrea Righi
2023-03-16 9:45 ` Linux regression tracking #adding (Thorsten Leemhuis)
2023-04-05 12:50 ` Linux regression tracking #update (Thorsten Leemhuis)
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