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From: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
To: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, satyam@infradead.org,
	stern@rowland.harvard.edu, Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>,
	Linux Containers <containers@lists.osdl.org>,
	gregkh@suse.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/25] Sysfs cleanups & tagged directory support
Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2007 16:16:31 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070808161631.1ccf27fd@gondolin.boeblingen.de.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070808103759.0850383c@gondolin.boeblingen.de.ibm.com>

On Wed, 8 Aug 2007 10:37:59 +0200,
Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 08 Aug 2007 01:57:07 -0600,
> ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) wrote:
> 
> > > Got it: It's patch 6, the readdir simplification.
> > >
> > > (The udev on that guest is ancient (063)...)
> > 
> > Ok.  That is weird.
> 
> More weirdness. If I activate another dasd from the repair file
> system, /dev/dasdb is created...
> 
> Same if I set the card reader online: /dev/vmrdr-0.0.000c is created as
> expected.

OK, it seems that it is udevstart that has problems. (Normal udev
operation seems fine; when I trigger uevents manually, the device nodes
are created.)

I ran strace on udevstart and found that it skipped
/sys/block/dasd/dasda1 (interestingly, /dev/dasda was created after I
ran udevstart manually; no idea why this didn't happen on boot. Further
manual runs don't create /dev/dasda1, however.) ls doesn't produce
different output on the two kernels.

Here is some excerpt from the strace run with the broken kernel:

open("/sys/block", O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK|O_LARGEFILE|O_DIRECTORY) = 3
fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=0, ...}) = 0
fcntl64(3, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC)         = 0
getdents64(3, /* 28 entries */, 4096)   = 800
_llseek(3, 3414, [3414], SEEK_SET)      = 0
stat64("/sys/block/dasda/dev", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0444, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0
open("/sys/block/dasda", O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK|O_LARGEFILE|O_DIRECTORY) = 4
fstat64(4, {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=0, ...}) = 0
fcntl64(4, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC)         = 0
getdents64(4, /* 15 entries */, 4096)   = 440
_llseek(4, 3079, [3079], SEEK_SET)      = 0
stat64("/sys/block/dasda/uevent/dev", 0x7fb8c3f8) = -1 ENOTDIR (Not a directory)
stat64("/sys/block/dasda/dev/dev", 0x7fb8c3f8) = -1 ENOTDIR (Not a directory)
stat64("/sys/block/dasda/range/dev", 0x7fb8c3f8) = -1 ENOTDIR (Not a directory)
stat64("/sys/block/dasda/removable/dev", 0x7fb8c3f8) = -1 ENOTDIR (Not a directory)
stat64("/sys/block/dasda/size/dev", 0x7fb8c3f8) = -1 ENOTDIR (Not a directory)
stat64("/sys/block/dasda/stat/dev", 0x7fb8c3f8) = -1 ENOTDIR (Not a directory)
stat64("/sys/block/dasda/capability/dev", 0x7fb8c3f8) = -1 ENOTDIR (Not a directory)
stat64("/sys/block/dasda/device/dev", 0x7fb8c3f8) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or d irectory)
stat64("/sys/block/dasda/subsystem/dev", 0x7fb8c3f8) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
stat64("/sys/block/dasda/holders/dev", 0x7fb8c3f8) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
stat64("/sys/block/dasda/slaves/dev", 0x7fb8c3f8) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
stat64("/sys/block/dasda/queue/dev", 0x7fb8c3f8) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
getdents64(4, /* 1 entries */, 4096)    = 32
close(4)                                = 0
getdents64(3, /* 1 entries */, 4096)    = 32
close(3)                                = 0
lstat64("/sys/block/dasda", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=0, ...}) = 0
lstat64("/sys/block/dasda/dev", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0444, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0
stat64("/sys/block/dasda/dev", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0444, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0
open("/sys/block/dasda/dev", O_RDONLY)  = 3
read(3, "94:0\n", 4096)                 = 5
close(3)                                = 0
lstat64("/sys/block/dasda/device", {st_mode=S_IFLNK|0777, st_size=0, ...}) = 0
readlink("/sys/block/dasda/device", "../../devices/css0/0.0.0003/0.0.4e30", 256) = 36
lstat64("/sys/devices/css0/0.0.0003/0.0.4e30", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=0, ...}) = 0
lstat64("/sys/devices/css0/0.0.0003/0.0.4e30/bus", {st_mode=S_IFLNK|0777, st_siz e=0, ...}) = 0
readlink("/sys/devices/css0/0.0.0003/0.0.4e30/bus", "../../../../bus/ccw", 256) = 19
lstat64("/sys/devices/css0/0.0.0003/0.0.4e30/driver", {st_mode=S_IFLNK|0777, st_ size=0, ...}) = 0
readlink("/sys/devices/css0/0.0.0003/0.0.4e30/driver", "../../../../bus/ccw/driv ers/dasd-eckd", 256) = 37
open("/proc/filesystems", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = 3
read(3, "nodev\tsysfs\nnodev\trootfs\nnodev\tb"..., 4095) = 259
close(3)                                = 0
stat64("/dev/dasda", 0x7fb8b738)        = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
mknod("/dev/dasda", S_IFBLK|0640, makedev(94, 0)) = 0
chmod("/dev/dasda", 060640)             = 0
chown("/dev/dasda", 0, 6)               = 0


And here's with a working kernel:

open("/sys/block", O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK|O_LARGEFILE|O_DIRECTORY) = 3
fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=0, ...}) = 0
fcntl64(3, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC)         = 0
getdents64(3, /* 27 entries */, 4096)   = 768
stat64("/sys/block/dasda/dev", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0444, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0
open("/sys/block/dasda", O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK|O_LARGEFILE|O_DIRECTORY) = 4
fstat64(4, {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=0, ...}) = 0
fcntl64(4, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC)         = 0
getdents64(4, /* 15 entries */, 4096)   = 440
stat64("/sys/block/dasda/dasda1/dev", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0444, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0
stat64("/sys/block/dasda/queue/dev", 0x7f9004f8) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
stat64("/sys/block/dasda/slaves/dev", 0x7f9004f8) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
stat64("/sys/block/dasda/holders/dev", 0x7f9004f8) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
stat64("/sys/block/dasda/subsystem/dev", 0x7f9004f8) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
stat64("/sys/block/dasda/device/dev", 0x7f9004f8) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
stat64("/sys/block/dasda/capability/dev", 0x7f9004f8) = -1 ENOTDIR (Not a directory)
stat64("/sys/block/dasda/stat/dev", 0x7f9004f8) = -1 ENOTDIR (Not a  directory)
stat64("/sys/block/dasda/size/dev", 0x7f9004f8) = -1 ENOTDIR (Not a directory)
stat64("/sys/block/dasda/removable/dev", 0x7f9004f8) = -1 ENOTDIR (Not a directory)
stat64("/sys/block/dasda/range/dev", 0x7f9004f8) = -1 ENOTDIR (Not a directory)
stat64("/sys/block/dasda/dev/dev", 0x7f9004f8) = -1 ENOTDIR (Not a directory)
stat64("/sys/block/dasda/uevent/dev", 0x7f9004f8) = -1 ENOTDIR (Not a directory)
getdents64(4, /* 0 entries */, 4096)    = 0
close(4)                                = 0
...
lstat64("/sys/block/dasda", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=0, ...}) = 0
lstat64("/sys/block/dasda/dev", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0444, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0
stat64("/sys/block/dasda/dev", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0444, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0
open("/sys/block/dasda/dev", O_RDONLY)  = 3
read(3, "94:0\n", 4096)                 = 5
close(3)                                = 0
lstat64("/sys/block/dasda/device", {st_mode=S_IFLNK|0777, st_size=0, ...}) = 0
readlink("/sys/block/dasda/device", "../../devices/css0/0.0.0003/0.0.4e30", 256) = 36
lstat64("/sys/devices/css0/0.0.0003/0.0.4e30", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=0, ...}) = 0
lstat64("/sys/devices/css0/0.0.0003/0.0.4e30/bus", {st_mode=S_IFLNK|0777, st_size=0, ...}) = 0
readlink("/sys/devices/css0/0.0.0003/0.0.4e30/bus", "../../../../bus/ccw", 256) = 19
lstat64("/sys/devices/css0/0.0.0003/0.0.4e30/driver", {st_mode=S_IFLNK|0777, st_size=0, ...}) = 0
readlink("/sys/devices/css0/0.0.0003/0.0.4e30/driver", "../../../../bus/ccw/drivers/dasd-eckd", 256) = 37
open("/proc/filesystems", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = 3
read(3, "nodev\tsysfs\nnodev\trootfs\nnodev\tb"..., 4095) = 276
close(3)                                = 0
stat64("/dev/dasda", {st_mode=S_IFBLK|0640, st_rdev=makedev(94, 0), ...}) = 0
chmod("/dev/dasda", 060640)             = 0
chown("/dev/dasda", 0, 6)               = 0
...
lstat64("/sys/block/dasda/dasda1", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=0, ...}) = 0
lstat64("/sys/block/dasda/dasda1/dev", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0444, st_size=4096, ...} ) = 0
stat64("/sys/block/dasda/dasda1/dev", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0444, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0
open("/sys/block/dasda/dasda1/dev", O_RDONLY) = 3
read(3, "94:1\n", 4096)                 = 5
close(3)                                = 0
lstat64("/sys/block/dasda", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=0, ...}) = 0
lstat64("/sys/block/dasda/device", {st_mode=S_IFLNK|0777, st_size=0, ...}) = 0
readlink("/sys/block/dasda/device", "../../devices/css0/0.0.0003/0.0.4e30", 256) = 36
lstat64("/sys/devices/css0/0.0.0003/0.0.4e30", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=0, ...}) = 0
lstat64("/sys/devices/css0/0.0.0003/0.0.4e30/bus", {st_mode=S_IFLNK|0777, st_size=0, ...}) = 0
readlink("/sys/devices/css0/0.0.0003/0.0.4e30/bus", "../../../../bus/ccw", 256) = 19
lstat64("/sys/devices/css0/0.0.0003/0.0.4e30/driver", {st_mode=S_IFLNK|0777, st_ size=0, ...}) = 0
readlink("/sys/devices/css0/0.0.0003/0.0.4e30/driver", "../../../../bus/ccw/drivers/dasd-eckd", 256) = 37
stat64("/dev/dasda1", {st_mode=S_IFBLK|0640, st_rdev=makedev(94, 1), ...}) = 0
chmod("/dev/dasda1", 060640)            = 0
chown("/dev/dasda1", 0, 6)              = 0

Ideas welcome...

  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-08-08 14:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 85+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-08-02 12:38 [PATCHSET 2.6.23-rc1] sysfs: locking fix and cleanups, take #2 Tejun Heo
2007-08-02 12:38 ` [PATCH 1/5] sysfs: cosmetic changes in sysfs_lookup() Tejun Heo
2007-08-02 12:38 ` [PATCH 2/5] sysfs: simplify sysfs_rename_dir() Tejun Heo
2007-08-02 12:38 ` [PATCH 3/5] sysfs: make sysfs_add/remove_one() call link/unlink_sibling() implictly Tejun Heo
2007-08-02 12:38 ` [PATCH 4/5] sysfs: make sysfs_add_one() automatically check for duplicate entry Tejun Heo
2007-08-02 12:38 ` [PATCH 5/5] sysfs: make sysfs_addrm_finish() return void Tejun Heo
2007-08-07 21:06   ` [PATCH 0/25] Sysfs cleanups & tagged directory support Eric W. Biederman
2007-08-07 21:08     ` [PATCH 01/25] sysfs: Move all of inode initialization into sysfs_init_inode Eric W. Biederman
2007-08-07 21:08       ` [PATCH 02/25] sysfs: Remove sysfs_instantiate Eric W. Biederman
2007-08-07 21:10         ` [PATCH 03/25] sysfs: Use kill_anon_super Eric W. Biederman
2007-08-07 21:11           ` [PATCH 04/25] sysfs: Make sysfs_mount static Eric W. Biederman
2007-08-07 21:12             ` [PATCH 05/25] sysfs: In sysfs_lookup don't open code sysfs_find_dirent Eric W. Biederman
2007-08-07 21:13               ` [PATCH 06/25] sysfs: Simplify readdir Eric W. Biederman
2007-08-07 21:14                 ` [PATCH 07/25] sysfs: Rewrite sysfs_drop_dentry Eric W. Biederman
2007-08-07 21:16                   ` [PATCH 08/25] sysfs: Implement __sysfs_get_dentry Eric W. Biederman
2007-08-07 21:17                     ` [PATCH 09/25] sysfs: Move sysfs_get_dentry below __sysfs_get_dentry Eric W. Biederman
2007-08-07 21:18                       ` [PATCH 10/25] sysfs: Rewrite sysfs_get_dentry in terms of __sysfs_get_dentry Eric W. Biederman
2007-08-07 21:19                         ` [PATCH 11/25] sysfs: Remove s_dentry Eric W. Biederman
2007-08-07 21:21                           ` [PATCH 12/25] sysfs: Introduce sysfs_rename_mutex Eric W. Biederman
2007-08-07 21:22                             ` [PATCH 13/25] sysfs: Simply sysfs_get_dentry Eric W. Biederman
2007-08-07 21:23                               ` [PATCH 14/25] sysfs: Don't use lookup_one_len_kern Eric W. Biederman
2007-08-07 21:25                                 ` [PATCH 15/25] vfs: Remove lookup_one_len_kern Eric W. Biederman
2007-08-07 21:26                                   ` [PATCH 16/25] sysfs: Support for preventing unmounts Eric W. Biederman
2007-08-07 21:27                                     ` [PATCH 17/25] sysfs: Rewrite rename in terms of sysfs dirents Eric W. Biederman
2007-08-07 21:28                                       ` [PATCH 18/25] sysfs: Rewrite sysfs_move_dir " Eric W. Biederman
2007-08-07 21:29                                         ` [PATCH 19/25] sysfs: sysfs_get_dentry add a sb parameter Eric W. Biederman
2007-08-07 21:31                                           ` [PATCH 20/25] sysfs: Rename Support multiple superblocks Eric W. Biederman
2007-08-07 21:32                                             ` [PATCH 21/25] sysfs: sysfs_chmod_file handle " Eric W. Biederman
2007-08-07 21:34                                               ` [PATCH 22/25] sysfs: sysfs_uptdate_file " Eric W. Biederman
2007-08-07 21:35                                                 ` [PATCH 23/25] sysfs: Implement sysfs tagged directory support Eric W. Biederman
2007-08-07 21:36                                                   ` [PATCH 24/25] sysfs: Implement sysfs_delete_link and sysfs_rename_link Eric W. Biederman
2007-08-07 21:36                                                     ` [PATCH 25/25] driver core: Implement tagged directory support for device classes Eric W. Biederman
2007-08-08 16:31                                                   ` alternative approached at tagged nodes Tejun Heo
2007-08-08  9:39                                                 ` [PATCH 22/25] sysfs: sysfs_uptdate_file handle multiple superblocks Tejun Heo
2007-08-08  9:38                                               ` [PATCH 21/25] sysfs: sysfs_chmod_file " Tejun Heo
2007-08-08  9:35                                             ` [PATCH 20/25] sysfs: Rename Support " Tejun Heo
2007-08-08 15:45                                               ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-08-08 15:50                                                 ` Tejun Heo
2007-08-08 16:35                                                   ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-08-08 16:42                                                     ` Tejun Heo
2007-08-08 16:55                                                       ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-08-08  8:57                                           ` [PATCH 19/25] sysfs: sysfs_get_dentry add a sb parameter Tejun Heo
2007-08-08 15:34                                             ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-08-08  8:53                                         ` [PATCH 18/25] sysfs: Rewrite sysfs_move_dir in terms of sysfs dirents Tejun Heo
2007-08-08  8:51                                       ` [PATCH 17/25] sysfs: Rewrite rename " Tejun Heo
2007-08-08 15:32                                         ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-08-08  8:39                                   ` [PATCH 15/25] vfs: Remove lookup_one_len_kern Tejun Heo
2007-08-08  8:38                                 ` [PATCH 14/25] sysfs: Don't use lookup_one_len_kern Tejun Heo
2007-08-08 15:26                                   ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-08-08 15:35                                     ` Tejun Heo
2007-08-08  8:24                               ` [PATCH 13/25] sysfs: Simply sysfs_get_dentry Tejun Heo
2007-08-08  8:19                             ` [PATCH 12/25] sysfs: Introduce sysfs_rename_mutex Tejun Heo
2007-08-08  8:23                               ` Tejun Heo
2007-08-08  8:28                               ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-08-08  7:46                           ` [PATCH 11/25] sysfs: Remove s_dentry Tejun Heo
2007-08-08  7:45                         ` [PATCH 10/25] sysfs: Rewrite sysfs_get_dentry in terms of __sysfs_get_dentry Tejun Heo
2007-08-08  7:45                       ` [PATCH 09/25] sysfs: Move sysfs_get_dentry below __sysfs_get_dentry Tejun Heo
2007-08-08  7:45                     ` [PATCH 08/25] sysfs: Implement __sysfs_get_dentry Tejun Heo
2007-08-08  7:35                   ` [PATCH 07/25] sysfs: Rewrite sysfs_drop_dentry Tejun Heo
2007-08-08  7:12                 ` [PATCH 06/25] sysfs: Simplify readdir Tejun Heo
2007-08-08  6:51               ` [PATCH 05/25] sysfs: In sysfs_lookup don't open code sysfs_find_dirent Tejun Heo
2007-08-08  6:51             ` [PATCH 04/25] sysfs: Make sysfs_mount static Tejun Heo
2007-08-08  6:50           ` [PATCH 03/25] sysfs: Use kill_anon_super Tejun Heo
2007-08-08  6:37         ` [PATCH 02/25] sysfs: Remove sysfs_instantiate Tejun Heo
2007-08-08  6:37       ` [PATCH 01/25] sysfs: Move all of inode initialization into sysfs_init_inode Tejun Heo
2007-08-08  7:38     ` [PATCH 0/25] Sysfs cleanups & tagged directory support Cornelia Huck
2007-08-08  7:47       ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-08-08  7:53         ` Tejun Heo
2007-08-08  7:54         ` Cornelia Huck
2007-08-08  7:57           ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-08-08  8:37             ` Cornelia Huck
2007-08-08  8:54               ` Tejun Heo
2007-08-08  9:16                 ` Cornelia Huck
2007-08-08 14:16               ` Cornelia Huck [this message]
2007-08-08 14:35                 ` Tejun Heo
2007-08-08 14:50                   ` Cornelia Huck
2007-08-08 14:55                     ` Tejun Heo
2007-08-08 15:08                       ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-08-08 15:13                         ` Tejun Heo
2007-08-08 15:16                           ` Tejun Heo
2007-08-08 15:53                             ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-08-08 16:03                               ` Tejun Heo
2007-08-08 16:37                                 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-08-08 15:15                       ` Cornelia Huck
2007-08-08 16:35                     ` Cornelia Huck

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