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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Martin Knoblauch <knobi@knobisoft.de>
Cc: efault@gmx.de, viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk, rjw@sisk.pl,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kay.sievers@vrfy.org,
	shemminger@vyatta.com, jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org, matthew@wil.cx,
	mike.miller@hp.com
Subject: Re: Analyzed/Solved/Bisected: Booting 2.6.30-rc2-git7 very slow
Date: Wed, 27 May 2009 13:31:25 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090527133125.c36381b5.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <488605.71443.qm@web32605.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

On Wed, 27 May 2009 04:25:57 -0700 (PDT)
Martin Knoblauch <knobi@knobisoft.de> wrote:

>  FWIW, I compiled the CCISS driver into the kernel. This makes the second "/sys" line in /proc/mounts go away, dmesg attached. But does it prove anything? The initialization of the CCISS hardware now happens about 2 seconds earlier in the bootup sequence. Does this hint to a problem with CCISS, or just confirms that the whole issue is really timing dependent? Anyway, I add Mike to CC.
> 

It seems that the PCI change caused timing changes which triggered a
udev/sysfs/whatever problem, which manifests as the duplicated
/proc/mounts entry to turn up.

What we don't know (afaik) is why the kernel permitted two entries in
/proc/mounts.  That might be a bug.

It could be that if dual /proc/mounts problem gets fixed, everything
works OK - by intent or by accident, the userspace startup scripts may
then work acceptably.

I think Al asked you a few questions around the behaviour of mount(8)
and the mount syscall, so we could delve further into why /proc/mounts
is getting mucked up.  Did you end up running those tests?


  reply	other threads:[~2009-05-27 20:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-05-27 11:25 Analyzed/Solved/Bisected: Booting 2.6.30-rc2-git7 very slow Martin Knoblauch
2009-05-27 20:31 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2009-05-27 20:56   ` Kay Sievers
2009-05-28  9:14     ` Martin Knoblauch
2009-06-16 19:25       ` Jesse Barnes
2009-06-17  8:35         ` Martin Knoblauch
2009-06-20 16:37           ` jim owens
2009-06-20 16:58             ` Matthew Wilcox
2009-06-20 18:19               ` Kay Sievers
2009-06-20 18:26                 ` Matthew Wilcox
2009-06-20 18:36                   ` Kay Sievers
2009-06-20 19:06                     ` Matthew Wilcox
2009-06-20 21:17                       ` jim owens
2009-06-21 10:57                         ` Martin Knoblauch
2009-06-21 13:50                           ` jim owens
2009-06-21 10:54             ` Martin Knoblauch
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2009-05-20 11:01 Martin Knoblauch
2009-04-24 12:45 Analyzed/Solved: " Martin Knoblauch
2009-04-29  1:28 ` Andrew Morton
2009-04-29  3:51   ` Mike Galbraith
2009-04-29  8:17     ` Andrew Morton
2009-04-29 12:08       ` Al Viro
2009-04-29 14:18         ` Mike Galbraith
2009-05-05 22:49           ` Andrew Morton
2009-05-06  4:45             ` Mike Galbraith
2009-05-06  7:55               ` Martin Knoblauch
2009-05-06  8:37                 ` Mike Galbraith
2009-05-20 10:22                   ` Analyzed/Solved/Bisected: " Martin Knoblauch
2009-05-27  6:31                     ` Andrew Morton
2009-05-27  9:14                       ` Martin Knoblauch
2009-05-27 11:21                       ` Matthew Wilcox
2009-05-27 11:53                         ` Martin Knoblauch
2009-05-27 18:07                           ` jim owens
2009-05-27 18:18                             ` Miller, Mike (OS Dev)
2009-05-27 20:12                               ` jim owens
2009-05-27 21:18                                 ` Miller, Mike (OS Dev)
2009-05-28  8:59                               ` Martin Knoblauch
2009-05-28 19:01                                 ` Miller, Mike (OS Dev)
2009-05-28 20:48                                   ` Martin Knoblauch

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