From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752128Ab1DUSAf (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Apr 2011 14:00:35 -0400 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:60647 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750703Ab1DUSAe (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Apr 2011 14:00:34 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <20110415035451@it-loops.com> <20110415042255.GC27928@infradead.org> <4DA7E202.4000307@fusionio.com> From: Linus Torvalds Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2011 10:59:39 -0700 Message-ID: Subject: Re: 2.6.39 Block layer regression was [Bug] Boot hangs with 2.6.39-rc[123]] To: Christian Kujau Cc: Jens Axboe , Christoph Hellwig , Michael Guntsche , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 10:53 AM, Christian Kujau wrote: > On Fri, 15 Apr 2011 at 08:13, Jens Axboe wrote: >> I think we are done, Neil just needs to rebase around the current >> for-linus and then we should expedite things in. > > Whatever this was: has it been pushed to Linus yet? I'm on 2.6.39-rc4+ > (from yesterday) and I too experience a hang during boot (and other > strange things with udev[0]) As of right now, all _known_ block bugs should be fixed in the stuff I just pushed out, with the current top-of-tree being the merge of the IDE CD endless loop issue and the NULL ptr oops at elevator change time: Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block: ide: unexport DISK_EVENT_MEDIA_CHANGE for ide-gd and ide-cd block: don't propagate unlisted DISK_EVENTs to userland elevator: check for ELEVATOR_INSERT_SORT_MERGE in !elvpriv case too but maybe yours is something else. That said, that udevd message of yours would imply a full root filesystem, which can cause any amount of issues at boot time.. Linus