Re: Analyzed/Solved: Booting 2.6.30-rc2-git7 very slow

[Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>]

On Thu, 30 Apr 2009 02:12:00 -0700 (PDT) Martin Knoblauch <knobi@knobisoft.de> wrote:

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> ----- Original Message ----
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> > From: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
> > To: Martin Knoblauch <knobi@knobisoft.de>
> > Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>; Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>; Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; tigran aivazian <tigran@aivazian.fsnet.co.uk>
> > Sent: Wednesday, April 29, 2009 8:10:41 PM
> > Subject: Re: Analyzed/Solved: Booting 2.6.30-rc2-git7 very slow
> > 
> > On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 10:51:35AM -0700, Martin Knoblauch wrote:
> > > 2.6.30-rc3-git2:
> > > 
> > > rootfs / rootfs rw 0 0
> > > /proc /proc proc rw,relatime 0 0
> > > none /sys sysfs rw,relatime 0 0
> > > none /dev tmpfs rw,relatime,mode=755 0 0
> > > /dev/root / ext3 rw,relatime,errors=continue,data=writeback 0 0
> > > none /dev tmpfs rw,relatime,mode=755 0 0
> > > /proc /proc proc rw,relatime 0 0
> > > /proc/bus/usb /proc/bus/usb usbfs rw,relatime 0 0
> > > /sys /sys sysfs rw,relatime 0 0
> > > none /dev/pts devpts rw,relatime,gid=5,mode=620 0 0
> > > /dev/cciss/c0d0p1 /boot ext3 rw,relatime,errors=continue,data=writeback 0 0
> > > none /dev/shm tmpfs rw,relatime 0 0
> > > /dev/cciss/c0d0p4 /scratch ext2 rw,noatime,errors=continue 0 0
> > > none /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc binfmt_misc rw,relatime 0 0
> > > sunrpc /var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs rpc_pipefs rw,relatime 0 0
> > 
> > Cute...  I wonder how that second mount(2) managed to succeed.  Could you
> > check what explicit mounting of sysfs on that point *again* does?
> Hi Al,
> 
>  by now I know a bit more. Starting with 2.6.29, the
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> none /sys sysfs rw 0 0
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> line is already in /proc/mounts when entering userspace. So I guess it comes out of my initrd. Again, what changed?
> 

afacit this didn't get understood, let alone fixed?

I see that you had a PCI-related issue which changed boot timing a lot,
but that isn't the bug - it simply exposed the bug by changing timing?