Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030498AbWKOOQo (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Nov 2006 09:16:44 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030488AbWKOOQo (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Nov 2006 09:16:44 -0500 Received: from extu-mxob-1.symantec.com ([216.10.194.28]:21482 "EHLO extu-mxob-1.symantec.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030490AbWKOOQn (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Nov 2006 09:16:43 -0500 X-AuditID: 7f000001-a4739bb000002674-50-455b214b79ea Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2006 14:17:01 +0000 (GMT) From: Hugh Dickins X-X-Sender: hugh@blonde.wat.veritas.com To: Andrew Morton cc: Mel Gorman , "Martin J. Bligh" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Boot failure with ext2 and initrds In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <20061114014125.dd315fff.akpm@osdl.org> <20061114184919.GA16020@skynet.ie> <20061114113120.d4c22b02.akpm@osdl.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-OriginalArrivalTime: 15 Nov 2006 14:16:43.0183 (UTC) FILETIME=[ACF503F0:01C708C0] X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAA== Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1018 Lines: 31 On Tue, 14 Nov 2006, Hugh Dickins wrote: > On Tue, 14 Nov 2006, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > > The below might help. > > Indeed it does (with Martin's E2FSBLK warning fix), > seems to be running well on all machines now. i386 and ppc64 still doing builds, but after an hour on x86_64, an ld got stuck in a loop under ext2_try_to_allocate_with_rsv, alternating between ext2_rsv_window_add and rsv_window_remove. Send me a patch and I'll try it... ext2_try_to_allocate_with_rsv+0x288 ext2_new_blocks+0x21e ext2_get_blocks+0x398 ext2_get_block+0x46 __block_prepare_write+0x171 block_prepare_write+0x39 ext2_prepare_write+0x2c generic_file_buffered_write+0x2b0 __generic_file_aio_write_nolock+0x4bc generic_file_aio_write+0x6d do_sync_write+0xf9 vfs_write+0xc8 sys_write+0x51 - 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/