From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 28 Sep 2001 14:33:48 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 28 Sep 2001 14:33:40 -0400 Received: from green.mif.pg.gda.pl ([153.19.42.8]:3588 "EHLO green.mif.pg.gda.pl") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 28 Sep 2001 14:33:33 -0400 From: Andrzej Krzysztofowicz Message-Id: <200109281833.UAA00831@green.mif.pg.gda.pl> Subject: Re: Kernel 2.4.10 /proc/partitions To: shewp@pblx.net Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2001 20:33:28 +0200 (CEST) Cc: andre@sam.com.br, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL0pre8] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > > I also have this problem as mentioned before. > > The problem cropped up between 2.4.10-pre5 and 2.4.10-pre6, > I did some checking. pre5 is fine, pre6 is broken. > > >From what I saw, my guess is that > genhd.c and the gendisk rewrites might be related. > > Unfortunately have no time to look at it until mid-October- > any help appreciated. I used to observe similar problem many kernels ago (2.1.x ?). Then it was related to a module not removing its gendisk from the list when unloading. The list became circular at its next modification. Maybe something similar ? > > major minor #blocks name > > > > 8 0 17692672 sda > > 8 1 32098 sda1 > > 8 2 32130 sda2 > > 8 3 4096575 sda3 > > 8 4 13526730 sda4 > > 8 0 17692672 sda > > 8 1 32098 sda1 > > 8 2 32130 sda2 > > 8 3 4096575 sda3 [...] > > the cat command never stop to list. Andrzej -- ======================================================================= Andrzej M. Krzysztofowicz ankry@mif.pg.gda.pl phone (48)(58) 347 14 61 Faculty of Applied Phys. & Math., Technical University of Gdansk