* Alexey Kardashevskiy [off-list ref] [2023-04-13 22:09:22]:

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On 23.03.23 10:53, Srikar Dronamraju wrote:

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I am unable to boot upstream kernels from v5.16 to the latest upstream
kernel on a maxconfig system. (Machine config details given below)

At boot, we see a series of messages like the below.

dracut-initqueue[13917]: Warning: dracut-initqueue: timeout, still waiting for following initqueue hooks:
dracut-initqueue[13917]: Warning: /lib/dracut/hooks/initqueue/finished/devexists-\x2fdev\x2fdisk\x2fby-uuid\x2f93dc0767-18aa-467f-afa7-5b4e9c13108a.sh: "if ! grep -q After=remote-fs-pre.target /run/systemd/generator/systemd-cryptsetup@*.service 2>/dev/null; then
dracut-initqueue[13917]:     [ -e "/dev/disk/by-uuid/93dc0767-18aa-467f-afa7-5b4e9c13108a" ]
dracut-initqueue[13917]: fi"

Alexey, did you look into this? This is apparently caused by a commit of
yours (see quoted part below) that Michael applied. Looks like it fell
through the cracks from here, but maybe I'm missing something.

Unfortunately Alexey is not working at IBM any more, so he won't have
access to any hardware to debug/test this.

Srikar are you debugging this? If not we'll have to find someone else to
look at it.

Has this been fixed and I missed cc:? Anyway, without the full log, I still
see it is a huge guest so chances are the guest could not map all RAM so
instead it uses the biggest possible DDW with 2M pages. If that's the case,
this might help it:

Hi Alexey, Michael

Sorry for the late reply, but I didnt have access to this large system.
This weekend, I did get access and tested with the patch. However it didn't
help much, system is still stuck at dracut with similar message except the
trace.

However this patch
https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230418204401.13168-1-gbatra@linux.vnet.ibm.com/ (local)
from Gaurav Batra does solve this issue.

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Thanks and Regards
Srikar Dronamraju