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

Chris Clayton
2008-06-06T06:10:03Z

On Friday 06 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?
>

Thanks for the reply, Andrew. I was beginning to think that I'd committed an
LKML sin :-)

Yes, it is about the same. On 2.6.25.4 (and earlier), the icons appear within a
second or two, but with 2.6.26-rc2 or later, it takes about 20 seconds. I've
now built and installed -rc5 and am seeing the same behaviour.

I've also built -rc5 on my laptop. On that my kernel uses the older IDE drivers
rather than libata. The boot proceeds with no pause, but I do see the same
delay in the desktop icons appearing when I attach a usb-storage device.

> > 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.

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