Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758127AbZAHT0y (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Jan 2009 14:26:54 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756018AbZAHT0p (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Jan 2009 14:26:45 -0500 Received: from casper.infradead.org ([85.118.1.10]:53262 "EHLO casper.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1759933AbZAHT0n (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Jan 2009 14:26:43 -0500 Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2009 11:28:40 -0800 From: Arjan van de Ven To: "Alexey Dobriyan" Cc: torvalds@osdl.org, "Linux Kernel" , linux-ide@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Too async libata breakage Message-ID: <20090108112840.46e3f063@infradead.org> In-Reply-To: References: Organization: Intel X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.6.1 (GTK+ 2.14.5; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by casper.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1061 Lines: 30 On Thu, 8 Jan 2009 22:15:56 +0300 "Alexey Dobriyan" wrote: > commit f29d3b23238e1955a8094e038c72546e99308e61 aka > "fastboot: Make libata initialization even more async" > results in no findable /dev/sda2 to mount / here. > > Kernel correctly sees sda as 750GB drive and the rest too. > > CONFIG_ATA_PIIX is in use, everything built-in, plain partitions, > no initrd, DM, MD etc. hmm. no initrd; can you try an experiment? if you edit init/do_mounts.c and find the "async_synchronize_full" call. that is just after a while() loop. Can you put another call to synchronize_full to also just before that while loop and see if that fixes it ? -- Arjan van de Ven Intel Open Source Technology Centre For development, discussion and tips for power savings, visit http://www.lesswatts.org -- 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/