Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S935478AbXFGUKi (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Jun 2007 16:10:38 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S933651AbXFGUKK (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Jun 2007 16:10:10 -0400 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:51349 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1764665AbXFGUKI (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Jun 2007 16:10:08 -0400 Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2007 13:09:31 -0700 From: Greg KH To: Jiri Slaby , Kay Sievers Cc: Tejun Heo , Andrew Morton , Mikael Pettersson , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.6.22-rc4-mm1 Message-ID: <20070607200931.GB22230@kroah.com> References: <20070606105650.bebf1c95.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <4666FBE8.3030103@gmail.com> <4667A93A.4060608@gmail.com> <4667AD3F.1010405@gmail.com> <4667AF20.4020209@gmail.com> <4667B095.5050508@gmail.com> <4667B241.801@gmail.com> <46682A25.5070409@gmail.com> <20070607160107.GA17800@kroah.com> <46683A1F.8070208@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <46683A1F.8070208@gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.15 (2007-04-06) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1531 Lines: 37 On Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 07:02:23PM +0200, Jiri Slaby wrote: > It'Greg KH napsal(a): > > On Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 05:54:13PM +0200, Jiri Slaby wrote: > >> Tejun Heo napsal(a): > >>> Jiri Slaby wrote: > >>>> Tejun Heo napsal(a): > >>>>> Jiri Slaby wrote: > >>>>>> Yes. Now I'm compiling -rc4-mm2. > >>>>> It's probably caused by new sysfs slimdown patches and I'm pretty sure > >>>>> -rc4-mm2 would fail the same way. The offending one should be one of > >>>>> the following patches. > >>>> There's reverted gregkh-driver-block-device in -mm2. So I wanted to give it a > >>>> try. Do you think it's pointless and that patch has no impact on the behaviour? > >>> I'm not familiar with how lvm vgscan works and the patch does look like > >>> it can affect that. Please give a shot at -mm2. > >> Yup, it works without any further patches. So it seems like > >> gregkh-driver-block-device is the culprit? > > > > Culprit for what kind of symptom? Is CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED enabled? > > If not, can you try that? > > LVM (lvm whatever) writes can't initialize lock 1 and quits. > > SYSFS_DEPRECATED solves the issue (-rc4-mm2 minus the revert + SYSFS_DEPRECATED). Great, thanks for letting us know. Kay, what userspace tool is involved here that is getting confused? thanks, greg k-h - 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/