From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758000AbYDNCG7 (ORCPT ); Sun, 13 Apr 2008 22:06:59 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753539AbYDNCGs (ORCPT ); Sun, 13 Apr 2008 22:06:48 -0400 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:42429 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753776AbYDNCGg (ORCPT ); Sun, 13 Apr 2008 22:06:36 -0400 Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2008 19:05:56 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: Tilman Schmidt Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, jgarzik@pobox.com, Steven French Subject: Re: 2.6.25-rc8-mm1: Intel SATA boot failure Message-Id: <20080413190556.69ed0dde.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <4802A538.9040107@imap.cc> References: <20080401213214.8fbb6d6b.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <47F56363.4090002@imap.cc> <20080403161733.c05dac53.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <4802A538.9040107@imap.cc> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.4.8 (GTK+ 2.12.5; x86_64-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 List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 14 Apr 2008 02:28:40 +0200 Tilman Schmidt wrote: > Final report, seeing -mm2 is out: > > - Netconsole works. (grumblestupidsusefirewallgrumble) > > - The hang during boot only happens with kernels compiled with > CONFIG_CIFS_EXPERIMENTAL=y > It also doesn't always happen at the same point in the boot sequence. > I'm suspecting it might be triggered by some network packet. > Anyway, it's obviously *not* a SATA problem. > (That was just me jumping to conclusions, because ...) I don't remember seeing a report of the CIFS hang. It might be caused by bkl-removal-convert-cifs-over-to-unlocked_ioctl.patch, but it's hard to see how that could affect things before userspace has started. > - That leaves only the messages > > ata1: port is slow to respond, please be patient (Status 0x80) > ata1: COMRESET failed (errno=-16) > > and accompanying delays during boot, for each installed SATA disk. > I'll try to find the time to retest this with 2.6.25-rc8-mm2. That would be good, thanks.