Hello everybody, I am experiencing issues on a live system based on Arch Linux [0][1] with Linux kernel 4.0.x when booted in RAM mode (parameter 'copytoram') [2]. Probably the problem exists some time longer, I am not sure when this first happened and what versions are effected.
The boot sequence looks like this:
-> boot kernel
-> start initramfs
-> get the squashfs image file (there is no difference with loop mount,
nbd or http)
-> root filesystem is set up with loop devices and device mapper
-> boot continues
The root filesystem is accessed as follows:
-> ext4 filesystem
-> device mapper snapshot target
-> /dev/loop1: r/o ext4 image
-> mounted squashfs
-> /dev/loop0: squashfs image
-> /dev/loop2: r/w COW image (sparse file)
Assembling the root filesystem stack always succeeds, but sometimes boot hangs
with a lot of:
INFO: task kworker/u#:#:### blocked for more than 120 seconds
and a single:
INFO: task kloopd/### blocked for more than 120 seconds
Any idea what goes wrong? Looks like a race condition or deadlock.
[0] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Archiso
[1] https://projects.archlinux.org/archiso.git/
[2] https://projects.archlinux.org/archiso.git/tree/docs/README.bootparams
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