From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261644AbVGaFpn (ORCPT ); Sun, 31 Jul 2005 01:45:43 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261685AbVGaFpn (ORCPT ); Sun, 31 Jul 2005 01:45:43 -0400 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:62922 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261644AbVGaFpk (ORCPT ); Sun, 31 Jul 2005 01:45:40 -0400 Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2005 22:44:37 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: "Francisco Figueiredo Jr." Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: "seeing minute plus hangs during boot" - 2.6.12 and 2.6.13 Message-Id: <20050730224437.4088ba70.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <42EC6BAB.5020106@yahoo.com.br> References: <20050722182848.8028.qmail@web60715.mail.yahoo.com> <105c793f05072507426fb6d4c9@mail.gmail.com> <42E59E0E.5030306@yahoo.com.br> <20050726003322.1bfe17ee.akpm@osdl.org> <42E7A153.6060307@yahoo.com.br> <20050727105005.30768fe3.akpm@osdl.org> <42E85E6E.2020105@yahoo.com.br> <42EC5451.7010907@yahoo.com.br> <20050730222624.73337021.akpm@osdl.org> <42EC6BAB.5020106@yahoo.com.br> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 1.0.4 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) 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 "Francisco Figueiredo Jr." wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Andrew Morton wrote: > > "Francisco Figueiredo Jr." wrote: > > > >>udev S 00000002 0 1312 1 1224 (NOTLB) > >> c1653f4c 00000082 c1653f3c 00000002 00000001 00000040 c1653f64 c1653f0c > >> c016611b bfec96a8 c1653f0c 00000040 00000000 00000361 000241ed > >> c13fb520 > >> 00000001 00001a7e 98f9769f 00000002 c146e520 df5da020 df5da148 > >> c13fbf60 > >> Call Trace: > >> [] cp_new_stat+0x15f/0x17a > >> [] schedule_timeout+0x54/0xa2 > >> [] process_timeout+0x0/0x9 > >> [] sys_nanosleep+0xdd/0x18e > >> [] syscall_call+0x7/0xb > > > > > > Well there's your delay: you've started running userspace and udev is > > running. Yes, it takes a long time. > > > > What makes you think this isn't normal behaviour? Do other kernels behave > > differently with the same userspace setup? > > > > > That's the point. On kernel 2.6.11 on same box I have no delay. It is > instantaneous. On 2.6.12-rc1 it was instantaneous but I didn't use it > much because I had drm problems. Later I tried 2.6.12 final and it was > hanging. I saw the "seeing a minute plugs hangs" on 2.6.13-rc1 release > notes and thought this could be the problem, but I compiled it and tried > with no luck :( > > Now, I'm thinking it could be something like the udev hang which > disapeared with udev update to 058. > > I don't know what can be happening. I think it is because of some type > of timeout. > > If you think there is something else I can do, please let me know. > Greg said in another thread: "older versions of udev (< 058) can work _really slow_ with 2.6.12. Please upgrade your version of udev and see if that solves the issue or not.". What version are you running? Looks like 058, yes?