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

[Martin Knoblauch <knobi@knobisoft.de>]

----- Original Message ----

> From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
> To: Martin Knoblauch <knobi@knobisoft.de>
> Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; efault@gmx.de; tigran aivazian <tigran@aivazian.fsnet.co.uk>
> Sent: Wednesday, April 29, 2009 3:28:37 AM
> Subject: Re: Analyzed/Solved: Booting 2.6.30-rc2-git7 very slow
> 
> On Fri, 24 Apr 2009 05:45:19 -0700 (PDT) Martin Knoblauch 
> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > 
> >  OK, I just found the reason for both intel-ucode and tg3 failures. Apparently 
> between 2.6.28 and 2.6.29 the mount of sysfs has subtely changed from:
> > 
> > /sys /sys sysfs rw 0 0
> > 
> > to:
> > 
> > none /sys sysfs rw,relatime 0 0
> 
> I assume that you're referring to the contents of /proc/mounts?
> 
> >  The "none" breaks the RHEL-4 provided hotplug script "firmware.agent" when it 
> tries to parse the mount point for "/sys". As a result, the firmware loading is 
> never properly finished and the driver(s) just timeout on the value  in 
> /sys/class/firmware/timeout. Bingo. Simple fix in user-pace possible - cool down 
> Martin :-)
> > 
> > Questions remains: was this intentional? It breaks existing userspace and 
> should therefore be considered a regression - right? On the other hand, it will 
> never be a problem for RHEL-4/5 kernels, unless the change in 2.6.29 gets 
> backported. Any ideas?
> 
> afaik that was unintentional and was probably a mistake.
> 
> I wonder how we did that.

 Actually, what breaks the RHEL-4.3 script is not the "none", but the duplicate lines in /proc/mounts that I reported earlier in the "regression" thread.

[root@lpsdm52]# grep sysfs /proc/mounts
none /sys sysfs rw,relatime 0 0
/sys /sys sysfs rw,relatime 0 0

 One of them likely comes from the respective line in /etc/fstab, but where does the second one come from?


Cheers
Martin