Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030588AbWKOPec (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Nov 2006 10:34:32 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030589AbWKOPec (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Nov 2006 10:34:32 -0500 Received: from dvhart.com ([64.146.134.43]:42899 "EHLO dvhart.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030588AbWKOPeb (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Nov 2006 10:34:31 -0500 Message-ID: <455B330F.7050102@mbligh.org> Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2006 07:32:31 -0800 From: "Martin J. Bligh" User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 (X11/20060922) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Hugh Dickins Cc: Andrew Morton , Mel Gorman , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Boot failure with ext2 and initrds References: <20061114014125.dd315fff.akpm@osdl.org> <20061114184919.GA16020@skynet.ie> <20061114113120.d4c22b02.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1289 Lines: 38 Hugh Dickins wrote: > 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. Ugh. What test are you doing? kernel compile in a tight loop forever? Andrew, do you want to drop the set for now, and we can try and debug it outside of -mm? No reason to break your tree if we don't have to ... > 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/