next/master boot: 273 boots: 63 failed, 209 passed with 1 untried/unknown (next-20171106)

[Guillaume Tucker]

On 09/11/17 11:29, Jon Hunter wrote:
>
> On 09/11/17 10:43, Guillaume Tucker wrote:
>
> ...
>
>> I actually built these kernel revisions with module support
>> disabled to speed up the builds, and no modules are being
>> downloaded in the LAVA job.
>>
>> If you have a public URL with your known working kernel zImage
>> and dtb, let me know so I could re-run the same test LAVA boot
>> test to see if I get the same results as you (i.e. no hang).
>
> I don't have a public URL for the zImage but I can definitely email it
> to you. By the way, when booting I am setting 'init=/bin/bash' so no
> start-up scripts are running.

Thanks, I tried your binary and it booted fine.  I built
next-20171109 again with and without loadable module support
enabled and it fails with it disabled but passes with it
enabled (even without actually loading any modules):

   * with CONFIG_MODULES disabled (fails):
     https://lava.collabora.co.uk/scheduler/job/981215

   * with plain multi_v7_defconfig and no modules loaded (passes):
     https://lava.collabora.co.uk/scheduler/job/981217


So I guess this means disabling loadable modules support has some
interesting side-effects that cause the kernel to crash.  I think
the kci builds all leave modules enabled with multi_v7_defconfig,
so the failing boots must be due to something else.  Taking
another look at the failing kci boots now...

Guillaume