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Date:      Tue, 31 Aug 2021 10:05:51 +0300
From:      Konstantin Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com>
To:        Dustin Marquess <dmarquess@gmail.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD CURRENT <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: New loader_lua.efi causes kernels to hang at boot
Message-ID:  <YS3Uz6si7Ovbts4X@kib.kiev.ua>
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On Tue, Aug 31, 2021 at 01:29:27AM -0500, Dustin Marquess wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 30, 2021 at 4:33 AM Konstantin Belousov <kib@freebsd.org> wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, Aug 29, 2021 at 08:27:02PM -0500, Dustin Marquess wrote:
> > > I am upgrading a -CURRENT box from a build that's exactly 2 weeks old to
> > > one I built about 2 hours ago. After installkernel I updated the
> > bootloader
> > > the same way I normally do:
> > >
> > > # mount_msdosfs /dev/da8p1 /mnt
> > > # cp /mnt/EFI/BOOT/BOOTX64.efi /mnt/EFI/BOOT/BOOTX64.bak
> > > # cp loader_lua.efi /mnt/EFI/BOOT/BOOTX64.efi
> > > # umount /mnt
> > >
> > > After rebooting, however, the kernel hangs right after:
> > >
> > > real memory  = 137438953472 (131072 MB)
> > > avail memory = 133651951616 (127460 MB)
> > > ACPI APIC Table: <LENOVO SV-INT  >
> > >
> > > It never makes it to this line:
> > >
> > > FreeBSD/SMP: Multiprocessor System Detected: 32 CPUs
> > > FreeBSD/SMP: 2 package(s) x 8 core(s) x 2 hardware threads
> > >
> > > So I rebooted a selected kernel.old at the boot menu and.. same thing.
> > > That's strange!
> > >
> > > So I booted off a USB stick, mounted the EFI partition and copied
> > > BOOTX64.bak back to BOOTX64.efi and now the machine booted normally.
> > >
> > > So for some reason the newer loader_lua.efi is causing both the new
> > kernel
> > > AND the old kernel to hang, but the older loader_lua.efi seems to work
> > with
> > > both no problem.
> >
> > Show your loader.conf.
> >
> > Try to add
> > exec="copy_staging enable"
> > line to it, does it hide the problem?
> >
> 
> Indeed, it does!
> 
> Full loader.conf is:
> 
> comconsole_speed="115200"
> console="comconsole"
> boot_serial="1"
> zfs_load="YES"
> vfs.root.mountfrom="zfs:zroot/ROOT/default"
> net.isr.maxthreads="32"
> net.isr.bindthreads="1"
> net.isr.maxqlimit="60480"
> net.link.ifqmaxlen="90000"
> kern.eventtimer.et.LAPIC.quality="1"
> hw.pci.do_power_nodriver="3"
> vfs.zfs.arc_max="8G"
> zpool_cache_load="YES"
> zpool_cache_type="/etc/zfs/zpool.cache"
> zpool_cache_name="/etc/zfs/zpool.cache"
> hint.apic.0.clock="0"
> hint.atrtc.0.clock="0"
> hint.attimer.0.clock="0"
> hint.hpet.0.legacy_route="1"
> kern.geom.label.disk_ident.enable="0"
> kern.geom.label.gptid.enable="0"
> if_cxgbe_load="NO"
> if_vlan_load="YES"
> if_tap_load="YES"
> if_bridge_load="YES"
> if_epair_load="NO"
> if_lagg_load="YES"
> vmm_load="YES"
> ioat_load="YES"
> hw.x2apic_enable="1"
> hw.cxgbe.nrxq="32"
> hw.cxgbe.ntxq="32"
> hw.cxgbe.fl_pktshift="0"
> hw.cxgbe.cong_drop="1"
> hw.cxgbe.pause_settings="0"
> hw.cxgbe.rdmacaps_allowed="0"
> hw.cxgbe.iscsicaps_allowed="0"
> hw.cxgbe.fcoecaps_allowed="0"
> cc_htcp_load="YES"
> machdep.hyperthreading_allowed="1"
> machdep.hyperthreading_intr_allowed="1"
> cpu_microcode_load="YES"
> cpu_microcode_name="/boot/firmware/intel-ucode.bin"
> vm.pmap.pti="0"
> machdep.mitigations.rngds.enable="0"
> machdep.mitigations.taa.enable="0"
> machdep.mitigations.mds.disable="0"
> machdep.mitigations.ssb.disable="0"
> machdep.mitigations.ibrs.disable="1"
> exec="copy_staging enable"

I hope that 9939af1a161e5c219ece5e7c5 would fix the problem for you,
i.e. system should boot with and without the exec line in loader.conf.



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