From: "Adam J. Richter" <adam@yggdrasil.com>
Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 16:14:36 -0800
Message-Id: <200212130014.QAA00316@baldur.yggdrasil.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, rgooch@atnf.csiro.au, viro@math.psu.edu
Subject: Re: 2.5.51 + devfs root + SMP = lockup
Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org
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I'm embarrassed to say that I wrote:
>	Linux 2.5.51 with SMP and devfs hangs at boot time when trying
>to find the initial root device (/dev/ram0 in my case). [...]

	This was self-inflicted.  When I removed the spontaneous
partition table rereading code from devfs, I did not notice that
get_removal_partition does a read_unlock(&parent->u.dir.lock), so I
was leaving a read lock in place where I deleted the call to this
routine.  Sorry for wasting anyone else's time with it.

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