Re: 2,6.26-rc4-git2 - long pause during boot

Rafael J. Wysocki
2008-06-06T10:44:54Z

On Friday, 6 of June 2008, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Sun, 1 Jun 2008 04:15:05 +0000 Chris Clayton <chris2553@googlemail.com> 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 <hare@suse.de>
> > 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 <hare@suse.de>
> > Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
> > Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
> >
> > :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