How to debug DEBUG_TEST_DRIVER_REMOVE hang during loading of kernel?

From	Maarten Maathuis <madman2003@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	How to debug DEBUG_TEST_DRIVER_REMOVE hang during loading of kernel?
Date	2016-10-27 20:50 +0200
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Hi,

I recently had trouble with loading a 4.9rcX kernel, which was hanging
after loading the initial kernel ramdisk. After some painful bisecting
I found this:

bea5b158ff0da9c7246ff391f754f5f38e34577a is the first bad commit
commit bea5b158ff0da9c7246ff391f754f5f38e34577a
Author: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
Date:   Thu Aug 11 10:20:58 2016 -0500

    driver core: add test of driver remove calls during probe

    In recent discussions on ksummit-discuss[1], it was suggested to do a
    sequence of probe, remove, probe for testing driver remove paths. This
    adds a kconfig option for said test.

    [1] https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/ksummit-discuss/2016-August/003459.html

    Suggested-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
    Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
    Signed-off-by: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
    Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

It turns out that the package i was using to build the kernel had
DEBUG_TEST_DRIVER_REMOVE enabled.

How do I actually figure out why this test causes a hang. I don't have
a COM port available to use as serial console, and i don't know if it
would even help.

Please CC me as i'm not a member of this mailinglist.

Maarten.

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How to debug DEBUG_TEST_DRIVER_REMOVE hang during loading of kernel? Maarten Maathuis <madman2003@gmail.com> - 2016-10-27 20:50 +0200
  Re: How to debug DEBUG_TEST_DRIVER_REMOVE hang during loading of kernel? Maarten Maathuis <madman2003@gmail.com> - 2016-10-29 13:10 +0200
    Re: How to debug DEBUG_TEST_DRIVER_REMOVE hang during loading of kernel? Maarten Maathuis <madman2003@gmail.com> - 2016-11-04 21:50 +0100
      Re: How to debug DEBUG_TEST_DRIVER_REMOVE hang during loading of  kernel? Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> - 2016-11-05 03:10 +0100

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