From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Rafael J. Wysocki" Subject: Re: 2,6.26-rc4-git2 - long pause during boot Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2008 12:45:12 +0200 Message-ID: <200806061245.13164.rjw@sisk.pl> References: <200806010415.05290.chris2553@googlemail.com> <20080605221709.f248eb90.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from ogre.sisk.pl ([217.79.144.158]:59394 "EHLO ogre.sisk.pl" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753313AbYFFKoy (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Jun 2008 06:44:54 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20080605221709.f248eb90.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: Andrew Morton Cc: chris2553@googlemail.com, LKML , linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, Hannes Reinecke On Friday, 6 of June 2008, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Sun, 1 Jun 2008 04:15:05 +0000 Chris Clayton wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I've just started testing 2.6.26 on my desktop machine and have found that I get > > a long pause (20 seconds or so) as the system boots. By pause I mean that the > > boot messages that normally scroll by stop doing so for, as I say, about 20 > > seconds. > > > > I've done a bisect and arrived at: > > > > b0ed43360fdca227048d88a08290365cb681c1a8 is first bad commit > > commit b0ed43360fdca227048d88a08290365cb681c1a8 > > Author: Hannes Reinecke > > Date: Tue Mar 18 14:32:28 2008 +0100 > > > > [SCSI] add scsi_host and scsi_target to scsi_bus > > > > This patch implements scsi_host and scsi_target device types > > and adds both to the scsi_bus. > > > > Signed-off-by: Hannes Reinecke > > Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers > > Signed-off-by: James Bottomley > > > > :040000 040000 4e3140909966b4c9aa987d34ee4078d283fe0351 > > 46e4fd28cc537ba700eb4f5652abf043fed4d76d M drivers > > > > The config file for that kernel is attached as are the kernel log for booting > > that kernel and the bisect log. > > > > I've also noticed that it takes much longer for icons to appear on my desktop > > when I plug a usb storage device in. (The icons are shown/hidden by a simple > > sctript that is run via udev when the device is attached/detached.) > > Do you believe that this is the same period? 20 seconds? > > > Let me know of any way I can help solve this. > > > > Please cc me to any reply as I'm not subscribed. > > cc's added. > > Rafael, we might need to track this as a post-2.6.26 regression. We're tracking it as http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10861 . Thanks, Rafael