Same here. EARLY_AP_STARTUP no longer needs to be disabled on my boxes too.
> On 24 May 2018, at 19:12, Mark Martinec <mark.martinec+free...@ijs.si> wrote: > > Just a short report to a thread I started when 11.1 came out. > > This machine would stall in a busy loop while attaching disks > during boot. Rebuilding a kernel with EARLY_AP_STARTUP disabled > avoided the problem. This was a situation through the whole > 11.1 life cycle (i.e. patch releases did not help). > > Today I have upgraded this host to 11.2-BETA2, and it is > no longer necessary to disable EARLY_AP_STARTUP. Good, thanks! > > Mark > > >> 2017-07-20 02:03, Mark Johnston wrote: >>> One thing to try at this point would be to disable EARLY_AP_STARTUP in >>> the kernel config. That is, take a configuration with which you're able >>> to reproduce the hang during boot, and remove "options >>> EARLY_AP_STARTUP". >> 2017-07-20 15:45, Mark Martinec wrote: >> Done. And it avoids the problem altogether! Thanks. >> Tried a reboot several times and it succeeds every time. >> Here is all that I had in a config file for building a kernel, >> i.e. I took away the 'options DDB' which also seemingly avoided >> the problem: >> include GENERIC >> ident NELI >> nooptions EARLY_AP_STARTUP >>> This feature has a fairly large impact on the bootup process and has >>> had a few problems that manifested as hangs during boot. There was at >>> least one other case where an innocuous change to the kernel >>> configuration "fixed" the problem by introducing some second-order >>> effect (causing kernel threads to be scheduled in a different >>> order, for instance). > [...] > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
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