Hi Greg,
On Wed, Nov 10, 2021 at 07:43:46PM +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 5.10.79 release. There are 21 patches in this series, all will be posted as a response to this one. If anyone has any issues with these being applied, please let me know.
Responses should be made by Fri, 12 Nov 2021 18:19:54 +0000. Anything received after that time might be too late.
systemd-journal-flush.service failed due to a timeout resulting in a very very slow boot on my test laptop. qemu test on openqa failed due to the same problem.
https://openqa.qa.codethink.co.uk/tests/365
A bisect showed the problem to be 8615ff6dd1ac ("mm: filemap: check if THP has hwpoisoned subpage for PMD page fault"). Reverting it on top of 5.10.79-rc1 fixed the problem. Incidentally, I was having similar problem with Linus's tree for last few days and was failing since 20211106 (did not get the time to check). I will test mainline again with this commit reverted.
-- Regards Sudip