[next-20190530] Boot failure on PowerPC

[Lili Deng (Wicresoft North America Ltd)]

Hi Sachin,

I verified below patch against Ubuntu 18.04, didn't hit the kernel panic any more, could you please let know how did you verify?

Thanks,
Lili
-----Original Message-----
From: Sachin Sant <sachinp at linux.vnet.ibm.com> 
Sent: Monday, June 3, 2019 11:12 AM
To: Dexuan-Linux Cui <dexuan.linux at gmail.com>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe at ellerman.id.au>; linuxppc-dev at lists.ozlabs.org; linux-next at vger.kernel.org; Dexuan Cui <decui at microsoft.com>; Lili Deng (Wicresoft North America Ltd) <v-lide at microsoft.com>
Subject: Re: [next-20190530] Boot failure on PowerPC



> On 31-May-2019, at 11:43 PM, Dexuan-Linux Cui <dexuan.linux at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On Fri, May 31, 2019 at 6:52 AM Michael Ellerman <mpe at ellerman.id.au> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Machine boots till login prompt and then panics few seconds later.
>>> 
>>> Last known next build was May 24th. Will attempt few builds till May 
>>> 30 to narrow down this problem.
>> 
>> My CI was fine with next-20190529 (9a15d2e3fd03e3).
>> 
>> cheers
> 
> Hi Sachin,
> It looks this patch may fix the issue:
> https://nam06.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Flkml.org%2Flkml%2F2019%2F5%2F30%2F1630&data=02%7C01%7Cv-lide%40microsoft.com%7C66e1ef6017aa461703f808d6e7d148cd%7C72f988bf86f141af91ab2d7cd011db47%7C1%7C1%7C636951283393233385&sdata=IJFhtvL2Bd87HCoMZ7oWL%2Bar6NY%2FfPbmdCZMT%2BJz5t4%3D&reserved=0 , but I'm not sure.

It does not help fix the kernel panic issue, but it fixes the get_swap_device warning messages during the boot.

Thanks
-Sachin