Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S935093AbcKWUIn (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Nov 2016 15:08:43 -0500 Received: from mail.manjaro.org ([176.9.38.148]:51458 "EHLO manjaro.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S934302AbcKWUIl (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Nov 2016 15:08:41 -0500 Subject: Re: BUG: 4.9-rc6 Still "no symbol version" on boot References: <20161102004639.6870806d@roar.ozlabs.ibm.com> Cc: Nicholas Piggin , Adam Borowski , Greg Kroah-Hartman To: "Linux-Kernel@Vger. Kernel. Org" From: =?UTF-8?Q?Philip_M=c3=bcller?= Message-ID: <98850889-29fd-a79f-348d-e047b2e12eec@manjaro.org> Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2016 21:08:28 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20161102004639.6870806d@roar.ozlabs.ibm.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1361 Lines: 50 Hi Robert, you have to apply following patch also: provide-asm-prototypes.h-for-x86.patch: https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9408985/raw/ @Adam, Nick: Was this patch not yet sent to Linus? greez, Phil Am 01.11.2016 um 14:46 schrieb Nicholas Piggin: > On Tue, 1 Nov 2016 13:48:59 +0100 > Philip Müller wrote: > >> Hi Nicholas, hi Michal, >> >> due to following commit it seems the 64bit architecture of linux 4.9-rc >> is not able to boot at all, as it is unable to find its root device: >> >> >> https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=84d69848c97faab0c25aa2667b273404d2e2a64a >> >> This got reported by several users: >> >> https://forum.manjaro.org/t/linux-4-9-rc2-does-not-boot/11434 >> >> Even after applying that patch it seems still to be unbootable: >> >> https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9406823/raw/ >> >> It is claimed it would boot by disabling CONFIG_MODVERSIONS for now. I >> still wonder why the 32bit version of the kernel boots without an issue. >> >> Any thoughts/plans on the matter from your end? We are happy to test >> some patches if needed. >> >> kind regards, Philip > > > Hi Philip, > > Thanks for reporting. You likely need to apply the x86 specific > patch as well as the above one. > > http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=147669851906489&w=2 > > Thanks, > Nick >