From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andrew Morton Subject: Re: 2.6.25-rc8-mm1: Intel SATA boot failure Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2008 19:05:56 -0700 Message-ID: <20080413190556.69ed0dde.akpm@linux-foundation.org> References: <20080401213214.8fbb6d6b.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <47F56363.4090002@imap.cc> <20080403161733.c05dac53.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <4802A538.9040107@imap.cc> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:42429 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753776AbYDNCGg (ORCPT ); Sun, 13 Apr 2008 22:06:36 -0400 In-Reply-To: <4802A538.9040107@imap.cc> Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: Tilman Schmidt Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, jgarzik@pobox.com, Steven French On Mon, 14 Apr 2008 02:28:40 +0200 Tilman Schmidt wrote: > Final report, seeing -mm2 is out: > > - Netconsole works. (grumblestupidsusefirewallgrumble) > > - The hang during boot only happens with kernels compiled with > CONFIG_CIFS_EXPERIMENTAL=y > It also doesn't always happen at the same point in the boot sequence. > I'm suspecting it might be triggered by some network packet. > Anyway, it's obviously *not* a SATA problem. > (That was just me jumping to conclusions, because ...) I don't remember seeing a report of the CIFS hang. It might be caused by bkl-removal-convert-cifs-over-to-unlocked_ioctl.patch, but it's hard to see how that could affect things before userspace has started. > - That leaves only the messages > > ata1: port is slow to respond, please be patient (Status 0x80) > ata1: COMRESET failed (errno=-16) > > and accompanying delays during boot, for each installed SATA disk. > I'll try to find the time to retest this with 2.6.25-rc8-mm2. That would be good, thanks.