Tztztz, you're not my colleague anymore and now you break my box?!?!
:-))) Here's how: current Linus master doesn't finish booting on my workstation and what I see as the last line printed on the console is: ... [ 6.778532] ata8: SATA link up 6.0 Gbps (SStatus 133 SControl 300) [ 6.785275] ata8.00: ATA-10: WDC WD1003FZEX-00K3CA0, 01.01A01, max UDMA/133 [ 6.792247] ata8.00: 1953525168 sectors, multi 16: LBA48 NCQ (depth 32), AA [ 6.799848] ata8.00: configured for UDMA/133 [ 6.804679] scsi 7:0:0:0: Direct-Access ATA WDC WD1003FZEX-0 1A01 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5 [ 6.812884] sd 7:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0 [ 6.812934] sd 7:0:0:0: [sdc] 1953525168 512-byte logical blocks: (1.00 TB/932 GiB) [ 6.825897] sd 7:0:0:0: [sdc] 4096-byte physical blocks [ 6.831151] sd 7:0:0:0: [sdc] Write Protect is off [ 6.835966] sd 7:0:0:0: [sdc] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00 [ 6.841052] sd 7:0:0:0: [sdc] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA [ 6.878559] sdc: sdc1 [ 6.881069] sd 7:0:0:0: [sdc] Attached SCSI disk <--- EOF I had to bisect on the workstation (yah, I know, bisecting on the workstation is no fun...), see bisect log at the end. Now, looking at that patch: 5795eb443060 ("scsi: sd_zbc: emulate ZONE_APPEND commands") yeah, that doesn't revert cleanly. But it talks about zoned-something devices and that rings a bell because you guys broke my zoned device once already: [ 4.954946] ata4: SATA link up 6.0 Gbps (SStatus 133 SControl 300) [ 4.972405] ata4.00: NCQ Send/Recv Log not supported [ 4.988254] ata4.00: ATA-10: ST8000AS0022-1WL17Z, SN01, max UDMA/133 [ 4.994569] ata4.00: 15628053168 sectors, multi 16: LBA48 NCQ (depth 32), AA [ 5.004576] ata4.00: NCQ Send/Recv Log not supported [ 5.011398] ata4.00: configured for UDMA/133 [ 5.015727] scsi 3:0:0:0: Direct-Access ATA ST8000AS0022-1WL SN01 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5 [ 5.023849] sd 3:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg1 type 0 [ 5.023889] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] Host-aware zoned block device [ 5.034730] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] 15628053168 512-byte logical blocks: (8.00 TB/7.28 TiB) [ 5.042511] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] 4096-byte physical blocks [ 5.047722] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off [ 5.052499] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00 [ 5.057538] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA [ 5.143300] sdb: sdb1 [ 5.145683] sdb: disabling host aware zoned block device support due to partitions [ 5.153311] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI disk so I thought, lemme disable that device and see if it boots. If it does, it probably points more in the direction of this patch. So I booted with "libata.force=4.00:disable" and yap, the box was up just fine. As to a reproducer - I'm guessing grabbing such a host-aware zoned device and slapping a single partition on it, would probably trigger it. If not, I can try to test patches but it'll take a while because this is my main box. $ git bisect start # bad: [b3a9e3b9622ae10064826dccb4f7a52bd88c7407] Linux 5.8-rc1 git bisect bad b3a9e3b9622ae10064826dccb4f7a52bd88c7407 # good: [3d77e6a8804abcc0504c904bd6e5cdf3a5cf8162] Linux 5.7 git bisect good 3d77e6a8804abcc0504c904bd6e5cdf3a5cf8162 # bad: [ee01c4d72adffb7d424535adf630f2955748fa8b] Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew) git bisect bad ee01c4d72adffb7d424535adf630f2955748fa8b # bad: [16d91548d1057691979de4686693f0ff92f46000] Merge tag 'xfs-5.8-merge-8' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/fs/xfs/xfs-linux git bisect bad 16d91548d1057691979de4686693f0ff92f46000 # good: [cfa3b8068b09f25037146bfd5eed041b78878bee] Merge tag 'for-linus-hmm' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rdma/rdma git bisect good cfa3b8068b09f25037146bfd5eed041b78878bee # good: [3fd911b69b3117e03181262fc19ae6c3ef6962ce] Merge tag 'drm-misc-next-2020-05-07' of git://anongit.freedesktop.org/drm/drm-misc into drm-next git bisect good 3fd911b69b3117e03181262fc19ae6c3ef6962ce # good: [1966391fa576e1fb2701be8bcca197d8f72737b7] mm/migrate.c: attach_page_private already does the get_page git bisect good 1966391fa576e1fb2701be8bcca197d8f72737b7 # good: [0c8d3fceade2ab1bbac68bca013e62bfdb851d19] bcache: configure the asynchronous registertion to be experimental git bisect good 0c8d3fceade2ab1bbac68bca013e62bfdb851d19 # bad: [f41030a20b38552a2da3b3f6bc9e7a78637d6c23] Merge tag 'selinux-pr-20200601' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pcmoore/selinux git bisect bad f41030a20b38552a2da3b3f6bc9e7a78637d6c23 # bad: [419c3d5e8012928fbf9a086b07b618146cc9277b] blk-mq: rename BLK_MQ_TAG_FAIL to BLK_MQ_NO_TAG git bisect bad 419c3d5e8012928fbf9a086b07b618146cc9277b # bad: [b2f609e191edc9c7a9dec603318461eeb23f8a6b] block: move the blk-mq calls out of part_in_flight{,_rw} git bisect bad b2f609e191edc9c7a9dec603318461eeb23f8a6b # bad: [29b2a3aa296711cfdadafbf627c2d9a388fc84ee] block: export bio_release_pages and bio_iov_iter_get_pages git bisect bad 29b2a3aa296711cfdadafbf627c2d9a388fc84ee # good: [02992df822e7e36685593aad10721a5a9f8d3402] block: provide fallbacks for blk_queue_zone_is_seq and blk_queue_zone_no git bisect good 02992df822e7e36685593aad10721a5a9f8d3402 # good: [e732671aa5f67232cf760666a15242dead003362] block: Modify revalidate zones git bisect good e732671aa5f67232cf760666a15242dead003362 # bad: [5795eb443060148796beeba106e4366d7f1458a6] scsi: sd_zbc: emulate ZONE_APPEND commands git bisect bad 5795eb443060148796beeba106e4366d7f1458a6 # good: [02494d35ba5547562aae4d9c4df2d6ec33d29012] scsi: sd_zbc: factor out sanity checks for zoned commands git bisect good 02494d35ba5547562aae4d9c4df2d6ec33d29012 # first bad commit: [5795eb443060148796beeba106e4366d7f1458a6] scsi: sd_zbc: emulate ZONE_APPEND commands Thx. -- Regards/Gruss, Boris. https://people.kernel.org/tglx/notes-about-netiquette