From: "Alexey Dobriyan" <adobriyan@gmail.com>
To: arjan@infradead.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Too async libata breakage
Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2009 23:02:33 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <b6fcc0a0901081202m30be591fse66e7f38477e0c0c@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
> On Thu, 8 Jan 2009 22:15:56 +0300
> "Alexey Dobriyan" <adobriyan@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > commit f29d3b23238e1955a8094e038c72546e99308e61 aka
> > "fastboot: Make libata initialization even more async"
> > results in no findable /dev/sda2 to mount / here.
> >
> > Kernel correctly sees sda as 750GB drive and the rest too.
> >
> > CONFIG_ATA_PIIX is in use, everything built-in, plain partitions,
> > no initrd, DM, MD etc.
>
> hmm.
> no initrd;
>
> can you try an experiment?
> if you edit init/do_mounts.c and find the "async_synchronize_full" call.
> that is just after a while() loop.
> Can you put another call to synchronize_full to also just before that
> while loop and see if that fixes it ?
Additional async_synchronize_full() helps and box boot to the end.
Hopefully noone depends on /proc/partitions being in alphabetical order. :-)
next reply other threads:[~2009-01-08 20:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-01-08 20:02 Alexey Dobriyan [this message]
2009-01-08 20:17 ` Pekka Paalanen
2009-01-08 20:53 ` [fix] " Arjan van de Ven
2009-01-08 21:22 ` Justin P. Mattock
2009-01-08 22:20 ` Justin P. Mattock
2009-01-08 22:31 ` Arjan van de Ven
2009-01-08 23:26 ` Justin P. Mattock
2009-01-09 0:16 ` Justin P. Mattock
2009-01-09 0:23 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-01-09 0:33 ` Justin P. Mattock
2009-01-09 10:05 ` Justin P. Mattock
2009-01-09 10:10 ` Tejun Heo
2009-01-09 10:19 ` [PATCH] libata: use WARN_ON_ONCE on hot paths Tejun Heo
2009-01-09 11:31 ` Zdenek Kabelac
2009-01-09 12:03 ` Jeff Garzik
2009-01-09 12:07 ` Alan Cox
2009-01-09 17:10 ` Justin P. Mattock
2009-01-09 18:39 ` Justin P. Mattock
2009-01-11 19:58 ` Zdenek Kabelac
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2009-01-08 19:15 Too async libata breakage Alexey Dobriyan
2009-01-08 19:28 ` Arjan van de Ven
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