On 03/31/2011 04:02 AM, Jens Axboe wrote:
> On 2011-03-30 15:52, Rob Landley wrote:
>> On 03/30/2011 06:38 AM, Jens Axboe wrote:
>>> On 2011-03-30 08:06, Rob Landley wrote:
>>>> On 03/29/2011 10:51 AM, Pete Clements wrote:
>>>>> Quoting Jens Axboe
>>>>>   > 
>>>>>   > On 2011-03-29 16:13, Rob Landley wrote:
>>>>>   > > On 03/29/2011 08:59 AM, Jens Axboe wrote:
>>>>>   > >> On 2011-03-29 10:52, Rob Landley wrote:
>>>>>   > >>> I'm booting all this under kvm or qemu, by the way:
>>>>>   > >>>
>>>>>   > >>> qemu-system-x86_64 -m 1024 -kernel arch/x86/boot/bzImage \
>>>>>   > >>>   -hda ~/sid.ext3 -append "root=/dev/hda rw"
>>>>>   > >>>
>>>>>   > >>> Sometimes with init=/bin/bash in that last quoted bit.  The root
>>>>>   > >>> filesystem's debian sid but that's probably not relevant because it
>>>>>   > >>> worked fine with .38.
>>>>>   > >>
>>>>>   > >> Does this help?
>>>>>   > >>
>>>>>   > >> diff --git a/drivers/ide/ide-io.c b/drivers/ide/ide-io.c
>>>>>   > >> index 0e406d73..ca27d30 100644
>>>>>   > >> --- a/drivers/ide/ide-io.c
>>>>>   > >> +++ b/drivers/ide/ide-io.c
>>>>>   > >> @@ -570,8 +570,7 @@ void ide_requeue_and_plug(ide_drive_t *drive, struct request *rq)
>>>>>   > >>  	spin_unlock_irqrestore(q->queue_lock, flags);
>>>>>   > >>  
>>>>>   > >>  	/* Use 3ms as that was the old plug delay */
>>>>>   > >> -	if (rq)
>>>>>   > >> -		blk_delay_queue(q, 3);
>>>>>   > >> +	blk_delay_queue(q, 3);
>>>>>   > >>  }
>>>>>   > >>  
>>>>>   > >>  static int drive_is_ready(ide_drive_t *drive)
>>>>>   > >>
>>>>>   > > 
>>>>>   > > Nope, still hung the same way.
>>>>>   > 
>>>>>   > Funky. I'll try and reproduce this tonight.
>>>>>   > 
>>>>>   > -- 
>>>>>   > Jens Axboe
>>>>>   > 
>>>>>
>>>>> I have had a similiar problem (reported earlier) unable to boot.
>>>>> With git15-18 hung with IDE drives (hda), git19-21 moved the hang down to
>>>>> the IDE CDROM (hdc). Applied the above patch and now booted into git21 without
>>>>> any hang and all appears ok.
>>>>
>>>> It may have made it better for me, it's hard to tell.
>>>>
>>>> I did a fresh pull, re-applied the patch, and tried again with
>>>> init=/bin/sh and it booted to the shell prompt... which then hung when I
>>>> did "ls -l /".
>>>>
>>>> If I let it boot normally, init announces itself, gives a spurious
>>>> warning about a fstab field (which it's been doing for a while, my fault
>>>> but harmless), then hangs.
>>>>
>>>>> This is i386, UP.
>>>>
>>>> I'm doing x86-64 SMP.
>>>
>>> I think we have the same issue the other location. How about this, then:
>>>
>>> diff --git a/drivers/ide/ide-io.c b/drivers/ide/ide-io.c
>>> index 0e406d73..4978ec3 100644
>>> --- a/drivers/ide/ide-io.c
>>> +++ b/drivers/ide/ide-io.c
>>> @@ -549,12 +549,11 @@ plug_device:
>>>  	spin_unlock_irq(&hwif->lock);
>>>  	ide_unlock_host(host);
>>>  plug_device_2:
>>> +	blk_delay_queue(q, queue_run_ms);
>>>  	spin_lock_irq(q->queue_lock);
>>>  
>>> -	if (rq) {
>>> +	if (rq)
>>>  		blk_requeue_request(q, rq);
>>> -		blk_delay_queue(q, queue_run_ms);
>>> -	}
>>>  }
>>>  
>>>  void ide_requeue_and_plug(ide_drive_t *drive, struct request *rq)
>>> @@ -570,8 +569,7 @@ void ide_requeue_and_plug(ide_drive_t *drive, struct request *rq)
>>>  	spin_unlock_irqrestore(q->queue_lock, flags);
>>>  
>>>  	/* Use 3ms as that was the old plug delay */
>>> -	if (rq)
>>> -		blk_delay_queue(q, 3);
>>> +	blk_delay_queue(q, 3);
>>>  }
>>>  
>>>  static int drive_is_ready(ide_drive_t *drive)
>>>
>>
>> Did a fresh pull and applied that patch.  (It conflicts with your
>> previous one, but looks like it includes it.)
>>
>> Now it hangs after the "EXT3-fs: barriers not enabled" line, doesn't
>> make it to init.
> 
> I have tried hard to reproduce this, but even stock 2.6.39-rc1 works
> fine for me here. Setup a KVM image with a debian 6 install, then
> converted it to IDE and booting it with a custom kernel like you are.
> Works fine, boots and I can do disk activity tests and it all works.
> 
> Can you send me your .config?

It was attached to the first message in this series, here it is again.

I update it via "make oldconfig" and hold down return.

I boot it via:

qemu-system-x86_64 -m 1024 -kernel arch/x86/boot/bzImage \
  -hda ~/sid.ext3 -append "root=/dev/hda rw"

Rob