Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264498AbTFKV4Q (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Jun 2003 17:56:16 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264503AbTFKV4Q (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Jun 2003 17:56:16 -0400 Received: from air-2.osdl.org ([65.172.181.6]:19911 "EHLO mail.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264498AbTFKV4F (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Jun 2003 17:56:05 -0400 Subject: Re: ext[23]/lilo/2.5.{68,69,70} -- IDE Problem? From: Andy Pfiffer To: Christophe Saout Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <1052513725.15923.45.camel@andyp.pdx.osdl.net> References: <1052507057.15923.31.camel@andyp.pdx.osdl.net> <1052510656.6334.8.camel@chtephan.cs.pocnet.net> <1052513725.15923.45.camel@andyp.pdx.osdl.net> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Message-Id: <1055369326.1158.252.camel@andyp.pdx.osdl.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.4 Date: 11 Jun 2003 15:08:46 -0700 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 8695 Lines: 249 On Fri, 2003-05-09 at 13:55, Andy Pfiffer wrote: > On Fri, 2003-05-09 at 13:04, Christophe Saout wrote: > > Am Fre, 2003-05-09 um 21.04 schrieb Andy Pfiffer: > > > > > [...] > > > I had an unrelated > > > delay in posting this due to some strange behavior of late with LILO and > > > my ext3-mounted /boot partition (/sbin/lilo would say that it updated, > > > but a subsequent reboot would not include my new kernel) > > > > So I'm not the only one having this problem... I think I first saw this > > with 2.5.68 but I'm not sure. > > Well, that makes two of us for sure. > > > > > My boot partition is a small ext3 partition on a lvm2 volume accessed > > over device-mapper (I've written a lilo patch for that, but the patch is > > working and) but I don't think that has something to do with the > > problem. > > > > When syncing, unmounting and waiting some time after running lilo, the > > changes sometimes seem correctly written to disk, I don't know when > > exactly. > > My /boot is an ext3 partition on an IDE disk. My symptoms and your > symptoms match -- wait awhile, and it works okay. If you don't wait > "long enough" the changes made in /etc/lilo.conf are not reflected in > the after running /sbin/lilo and rebooting normally. > > I have been unable to reproduce this on a uniproc system with SCSI > disks. > > 2.5.67 seems to work in this regard as expected. > > > Could it be that the location of /boot/map is not written to the > > partition sector of /dev/hda? Or not flushed correctly or something? > > > > After reboot the old kernel came up again (though it was moved to > > vmlinuz.old). > > I don't know -- I haven't isolated it yet. > > Anyone else? I have taken another look at this, and can confirm the following: 1. 2.5.67 works as expected. 2. 2.5.68, 2.5.69, and 2.5.70 do not. 3. ext2 vs. ext3 for /boot: no effect (ie, .68, .69, .70 demonstrate the problem independent of the filesystem used for /boot). Relative to a 2.5.68 pure BK tree, the deltas from 2.5.67 to 2.5.68 are: 1.971.76.10 /* 2.5.67 */ 1.1124 /* 2.5.68 */ The patch exported by BK between these 2 revs is 297K lines ( a sizeable haystack ). Any ideas about where I should dig for my needle first would be welcomed... Gory details about my hardware & software follow... % lilo -v LILO version 22.1, Copyright (C) 1992-1998 Werner Almesberger Development beyond version 21 Copyright (C) 1999-2001 John Coffman Released 31-Oct-2001 and compiled at 20:50:13 on Mar 25 2002. MAX_IMAGES = 27 CPUs: processor : 0 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 15 model : 1 model name : Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 1.70GHz stepping : 2 cpu MHz : 1685.926 cache size : 256 KB physical id : 0 siblings : 1 fdiv_bug : no hlt_bug : no f00f_bug : no coma_bug : no fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 2 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm bogomips : 3317.76 processor : 1 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 15 model : 0 model name : Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 1700MHz stepping : 10 cpu MHz : 1685.926 cache size : 256 KB physical id : 0 siblings : 1 fdiv_bug : no hlt_bug : no f00f_bug : no coma_bug : no fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 2 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm bogomips : 3366.91 Two IDE hard drives (I haven't cracked the case to identify the manufacturer): /dev/hda: HDIO_GETGEO_BIG failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device Model=CI530L04VARE700- , FwRev=REO44AA5, SerialNo= S PXXTYH2351 Config={ HardSect NotMFM HdSw>15uSec Fixed DTR>10Mbs } RawCHS=16383/16/63, TrkSize=0, SectSize=0, ECCbytes=40 BuffType=DualPortCache, BuffSize=1916kB, MaxMultSect=16, MultSect=16 CurCHS=16383/16/63, CurSects=-66060037, LBA=yes, LBAsects=78156288 IORDY=on/off, tPIO={min:240,w/IORDY:120}, tDMA={min:120,rec:120} PIO modes: pio0 pio1 pio2 pio3 pio4 DMA modes: mdma0 mdma1 mdma2 udma0 udma1 udma2 udma3 udma4 *udma5 AdvancedPM=yes: disabled (255) Drive Supports : ATA/ATAPI-5 T13 1321D revision 1 : ATA-2 ATA-3 ATA-4 ATA-5 /dev/hdb: HDIO_GETGEO_BIG failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device Model=CI530L02VARE700- , FwRev=REO24AA5, SerialNo= S PVVTFT0B17 Config={ HardSect NotMFM HdSw>15uSec Fixed DTR>10Mbs } RawCHS=16383/16/63, TrkSize=0, SectSize=0, ECCbytes=40 BuffType=DualPortCache, BuffSize=1916kB, MaxMultSect=16, MultSect=16 CurCHS=16383/16/63, CurSects=-66060037, LBA=yes, LBAsects=39876480 IORDY=on/off, tPIO={min:240,w/IORDY:120}, tDMA={min:120,rec:120} PIO modes: pio0 pio1 pio2 pio3 pio4 DMA modes: mdma0 mdma1 mdma2 udma0 udma1 udma2 udma3 udma4 *udma5 AdvancedPM=yes: disabled (255) Drive Supports : ATA/ATAPI-5 T13 1321D revision 1 : ATA-2 ATA-3 ATA-4 ATA-5 The PCI hardware on this system: 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 82850 860 (Wombat) Chipset Host Bridge (MCH) (rev 04) Subsystem: IBM: Unknown device 2531 Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0 Memory at f0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=64M] Capabilities: [a0] AGP version 2.0 00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82850/82860 850/860 (Tehama/Wombat) Chipset AGP Bridge (rev 04) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode]) Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, fast devsel, latency 64 Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=32 Memory behind bridge: f6000000-f8ffffff Prefetchable memory behind bridge: f4000000-f5ffffff 00:02.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82860 860 (Wombat) Chipset PCI Bridge (rev 04) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode]) Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, fast devsel, latency 32 Bus: primary=00, secondary=02, subordinate=03, sec-latency=0 Memory behind bridge: fb000000-fb0fffff 00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82801BA/CA PCI Bridge (rev 04) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode]) Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0 Bus: primary=00, secondary=04, subordinate=04, sec-latency=32 I/O behind bridge: 0000c000-0000cfff Memory behind bridge: f9000000-faffffff 00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82801BA ISA Bridge (LPC) (rev 04) Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0 00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82801BA IDE U100 (rev 04) (prog-if 80 [Master]) Subsystem: IBM: Unknown device 2442 Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0 I/O ports at f000 [size=16] 00:1f.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801BA/BAM USB (Hub (rev 04) (prog-if 00 [UHCI]) Subsystem: IBM: Unknown device 2442 Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 19 I/O ports at d000 [size=32] 00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corp. 82801BA/BAM SMBus (rev 04) Subsystem: IBM: Unknown device 2442 Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 17 I/O ports at 5000 [size=16] 00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corp. 82801BA/BAM AC'97 Audio (rev 04) Subsystem: IBM: Unknown device 0224 Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 17 I/O ports at d800 [size=256] I/O ports at dc00 [size=64] 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Matrox Graphics, Inc. MGA G400 AGP (rev 85) (prog-if 00 [VGA]) Subsystem: Matrox Graphics, Inc. Millennium G450 Dual Head Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 22 Memory at f4000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=32M] Memory at f6000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K] Memory at f7000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8M] Expansion ROM at [disabled] [size=128K] Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 2 Capabilities: [f0] AGP version 2.0 02:1f.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82806AA PCI64 Hub PCI Bridge (rev 03) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode]) Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, fast devsel, latency 0 Bus: primary=02, secondary=03, subordinate=03, sec-latency=32 Memory behind bridge: fb000000-fb0fffff 03:00.0 PIC: Intel Corp. 82806AA PCI64 Hub Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller (rev 01) (prog-if 20 [IO(X)-APIC]) Subsystem: Intel Corp. 82806AA PCI64 Hub Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0 Memory at fb000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K] 04:04.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corp. 82557/8/9 [Ethernet Pro 100] (rev 0c) Subsystem: IBM: Unknown device 0207 Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 16 Memory at fa020000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K] I/O ports at c000 [size=64] Memory at fa000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=128K] Expansion ROM at [disabled] [size=64K] Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 2 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/