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Date:      Wed, 2 Feb 2022 19:06:24 -0600
From:      Kyle Evans <kevans@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Jesper Schmitz Mouridsen <jsm@freebsd.org>, Mark Millard <marklmi@yahoo.com>, Mike Karels <mike@karels.net>,  freebsd-current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: randomdev hangs during initial boot of -current on Raspberry Pi
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On Wed, Feb 2, 2022 at 10:50 AM Kyle Evans <kevans@freebsd.org> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Feb 2, 2022 at 3:41 AM Jesper Schmitz Mouridsen <jsm@freebsd.org> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > On 31.01.2022 22.20, Mark Millard wrote:
> > > Mike Karels <mike_at_karels.net> wrote on
> > > Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2022 12:27:41 -0600 :
> > >
> > >> A bisect
> > >> would be rather laborious, building a modified SD card each time,
> > >> even if just testing kernel changes.  Any other suggestions?
> > >
> > > Historically I've used:
> > >
> > > https://artifact.ci.freebsd.org/snapshot/main/?C=M&O=D
> > >
> > > and the likes of kernel.txz (or more) from, for example:
> > >
> > > https://artifact.ci.freebsd.org/snapshot/main/b4cc5d63b6112746598d21413c9800a43171da52/arm64/aarch64/?C=M&O=D
> > >
> > > to update just the kernel (or whatever) and rebooted.
> > > (It can help to have a somewhat older world that is
> > > left in place instead of running newer worlds on older
> > > kernels. Avoiding needing got update world as well has
> > > been helpful when testing for kernel issues.)
> > >
> > > This avoids building the kernels and allows a somewhat
> > > bisect like activity until some subrange has no
> > > arm64/aarch64 artifacts available.
> > >
> > > One can sometimes run into the dates for the sort for:
> > >
> > > https://artifact.ci.freebsd.org/snapshot/main/?C=M&O=D
> > >
> > > not matching up well with the dates on the files of
> > > interest in specific sub directoreis. (Some sort of
> > > directory update?) This can make the bisect far more
> > > difficult, given the choice to not have the directory
> > > names prefixed with text that would sort by a
> > > date/time estimate when sorted by name. (Only using
> > > the commit id/hash completely randomizes the naming.)
> > >
> > >
> > > ===
> > > Mark Millard
> > > marklmi at yahoo.com
> > >
> > >
> > Hi
> > My bisect gives:
> > The latest working is:
> > dda9847275da79ccbb2f0b7079b250e28b3b3b2a
> > The excact following commit:
> > 74cf7cae4d2238ae6d1c949b2bbd077e1ab33634 is bad.
> > So  74cf7cae4d2238ae6d1c949b2bbd077e1ab33634 is where the problem starts
> > for me.
> > Hope that someone can explain why
> > 74cf7cae4d2238ae6d1c949b2bbd077e1ab33634 does block entropy/random
> > seeding on first boot around growfs invocation on arm64
> > /Jsm
> >
>
> That seems odd, but CC'ing jhb@ -- maybe there's something hinky going
> on since this is before AP startup for arm.

I poked jhb out-of-band and we tracked it down to callouts having been
a major source of entropy for early boot via SWI; tentative fix
pending here: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D34150

Thanks,

Kyle Evans



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