Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262474AbVAPLCR (ORCPT ); Sun, 16 Jan 2005 06:02:17 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262478AbVAPLCR (ORCPT ); Sun, 16 Jan 2005 06:02:17 -0500 Received: from tornado.reub.net ([60.234.136.108]:51134 "EHLO tornado.reub.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262474AbVAPLCN (ORCPT ); Sun, 16 Jan 2005 06:02:13 -0500 Message-ID: <41EA49AC.7070504@reub.net> Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2005 00:02:04 +1300 From: Reuben Farrelly User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.6+ (Windows/20050115) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: fa.linux.kernel Cc: Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Neil Brown Subject: Re: Breakage with raid in 2.6.11-rc1-mm1 [Regression in mm] References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: unlisted-recipients:; (no To-header on input) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2335 Lines: 73 Hi, Reuben Farrelly wrote: > At 12:58 a.m. 15/01/2005, Andrew Morton wrote: > >> Reuben Farrelly wrote: >> > >> > Something seems to have broken with 2.6.11-rc1-mm1, which worked ok >> with >> > 2.6.10-mm3. >> > >> > NET: Registered protocol family 17 >> > Starting balanced_irq >> > BIOS EDD facility v0.16 2004-Jun-25, 2 devices found >> > md: Autodetecting RAID arrays. >> > md: autorun ... >> > md: ... autorun DONE. >> > Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on >> unknown-block(0,0) >> > >> > The system is running 5 RAID-1 partitions, and md2 is the root as per >> > grub.conf. Problem seems to be that raid autodetection finds no raid >> > partitions :( >> > >> > The two ST380013AS SATA drives are detected earlier in the boot, so >> I don't >> > think that's the problem.. >> >> hm, the only raidy thing we have in there is the below. Maybe you could >> try reverting that? >> >> >> --- 25/drivers/md/raid5.c~raid5-overlapping-read-hack 2005-01-09 >> 22:20:40.211246912 -0800 >> +++ 25-akpm/drivers/md/raid5.c 2005-01-09 22:20:40.216246152 -0800 >> @@ -232,6 +232,7 @@ static struct stripe_head *__find_stripe >> } >> >> static void unplug_slaves(mddev_t *mddev); >> +static void raid5_unplug_device(request_queue_t *q); >> >> static struct stripe_head *get_active_stripe(raid5_conf_t *conf, >> sector_t sector, >> int pd_idx, int noblock) > > > Ok the breakage occurred somewhere between 2.6.10-mm3 (works) and > 2.6.11-rc1 (doesn't work) ie wasn't introduced into the latest -mm > patchset as I first thought. > > Are there any other patches that might be worth a try backing out? > > reuben I did a full untar of the source and rebuilt my (crusty old) config file from scratch, and it seems to have come right now. Can't really explain it though...but obviously wasn't a problem with the -mm release as I first though. Now running -rc1-mm1 with no problems and no other patches. Thanks to those who helped on what turned out to be a false alarm. reuben - 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/