Re: Something broken in sys_swapon

[Simon Kirby <sim@netnation.com>]

Hmm...Guessing that it had something to do with set_blocksize, I added
this patch to the kernel:

--- linux/fs/block_dev.c.orig	Sun Nov  4 11:35:05 2001
+++ linux/fs/block_dev.c	Sun Nov  4 11:54:39 2001
@@ -95,6 +95,9 @@
 	/* Ok, we're actually changing the blocksize.. */
 	bdev = bdget(dev);
 	sync_buffers(dev, 2);
+	printk("Changing device %02x:%02x block size from %u to %u\n",
+		MAJOR(dev),MINOR(dev),
+		blksize_size[MAJOR(dev)][MINOR(dev)],size);
 	blksize_size[MAJOR(dev)][MINOR(dev)] = size;
 	bdev->bd_inode->i_blkbits = blksize_bits(size);
 	kill_bdev(bdev);

And tried booting again with /dev/hdb2 swap in my fstab...

NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0.
Changing device 03:02 block size from 1024 to 2048
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
Freeing unused kernel memory: 224k freed
Changing device 03:03 block size from 1024 to 4096
Adding Swap: 265064k swap-space (priority 0)
Changing device 03:42 block size from 10739452 to 4096
attempt to access beyond end of device
03:02: rw=0, want=10555924, limit=4096
attempt to access beyond end of device
03:02: rw=0, want=10555926, limit=4096

It looks like it's not changing 03:02 (/dev/hda2, my root fs), which is
good, but it seems to be trying to change 03:42 (/dev/hdb2) even though
that device doesn't exist (which could also be fine, but it looks like it
wasn't initialized).  I'm guessing blksize_size is statically allocated,
so this isn't a problem.

I wonder what else could cause 03:02 to barf... Hmm.

Simon-

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