Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264812AbTFLK6r (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Jun 2003 06:58:47 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264813AbTFLK6r (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Jun 2003 06:58:47 -0400 Received: from werbeagentur-aufwind.com ([217.160.128.76]:40622 "EHLO mail.werbeagentur-aufwind.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264812AbTFLK6q (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Jun 2003 06:58:46 -0400 Subject: Re: ext[23]/lilo/2.5.{68,69,70} -- blkdev_put() problem? From: Christophe Saout To: Andrew Morton Cc: andyp@osdl.org, adam@yggdrasil.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20030612035442.29345778.akpm@digeo.com> 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> <1055369326.1158.252.camel@andyp.pdx.osdl.net> <1055373692.16483.8.camel@chtephan.cs.pocnet.net> <1055377253.1222.8.camel@andyp.pdx.osdl.net> <20030611172958.5e4d3500.akpm@digeo.com> <1055414558.565.4.camel@chtephan.cs.pocnet.net> <20030612035442.29345778.akpm@digeo.com> Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1055416343.566.15.camel@chtephan.cs.pocnet.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.0 Date: 12 Jun 2003 13:12:23 +0200 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1618 Lines: 50 Am Don, 2003-06-12 um 12.54 schrieb Andrew Morton: > Christophe Saout wrote: > > > > Am Don, 2003-06-12 um 02.29 schrieb Andrew Morton: > > > > > I'd be interested in seeing the contents of /proc/meminfo immediately after > > > the lilo run, see if there's any dirty memory left around. > > > > Yes, one page. After running lilo, there are 4k diry, running sync > > doesn't get it below 4k. > > That would tend to imply that a page got onto the wrong list. But if that > were so, nothing would be able to write it. > > > Only flushb /dev/hda does (or waiting several minutes). > > What is flushb? A program that does a flush ioctl on a block device: open("/dev/hda", O_RDONLY) = 3 ioctl(3, BLKFLSBUF, 0) = 0 > I use `lilo ; reboot -f' about 1000 times a day, no probs. There's > something different. > > Adam was doing strange things with an initrd and pivot_root. Are you doing > anything unconventional? I'm using an initrd (but no pivot_root) that initializes my LVM2 volumes (using device-mapper). /boot and / are on device-mapper devices. > > BTW: I found out that now strace lilo freezes the machine... > > Works OK here. Try `strace strace lilo' ;) I'll try to find out what happens. Not interested in crashing my system while answering emails now. ;) -- Christophe Saout - 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/