From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
To: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>,
lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-ide@vger.kernel.org,
linux-scsi <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>,
Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: Is sata_nv compatible with async scsi scan?
Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 06:27:56 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <49ED9FAC.1080303@garzik.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49ED6FD7.3070307@panasas.com>
Benny Halevy wrote:
> Hi Jeff,
>
> Since 2.6.29 I'm having intermittent problems with booting kernels.
> After supposedly waiting for scsi async scan to complete,
> quite frequently I see errors from the init resume process
> when it fails to find the swap partition and later the root
> file system fails to load.
>
> A workaround that I found to be helpful is booting the kernel
> with scsi_mod.scan=sync so I suspect sata_nv has a problem
> with asynchronous scanning.
Personally, I think the whole system is broken, so continue to use this
workaround until it gets fixed upstream. This sounds like some timing
issues related to waiting for the device probe to finish, something that
people keep breaking (witness my USB flash drive boot breakage).
Jeff
next parent reply other threads:[~2009-04-21 10:28 UTC|newest]
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2009-04-21 10:27 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2009-04-21 11:26 ` Is sata_nv compatible with async scsi scan? Matthew Wilcox
2009-04-21 12:30 ` Benny Halevy
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