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* Re: Too async libata breakage
@ 2009-01-08 20:02 Alexey Dobriyan
  2009-01-08 20:17 ` Pekka Paalanen
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 19+ messages in thread
From: Alexey Dobriyan @ 2009-01-08 20:02 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: arjan, torvalds; +Cc: linux-kernel

> On Thu, 8 Jan 2009 22:15:56 +0300
> "Alexey Dobriyan" <adobriyan@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > commit f29d3b23238e1955a8094e038c72546e99308e61 aka
> > "fastboot: Make libata initialization even more async"
> > results in no findable /dev/sda2 to mount / here.
> >
> > Kernel correctly sees sda as 750GB drive and the rest too.
> >
> > CONFIG_ATA_PIIX is in use, everything built-in, plain partitions,
> > no initrd, DM, MD etc.
>
> hmm.
> no initrd;
>
> can you try an experiment?
> if you edit init/do_mounts.c and find the "async_synchronize_full" call.
> that is just after a while() loop.
> Can you put another call to synchronize_full to also just before that
> while loop and see if that fixes it ?

Additional async_synchronize_full() helps and box boot to the end.

Hopefully noone depends on /proc/partitions being in alphabetical order. :-)

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2009-01-08 20:02 Too async libata breakage Alexey Dobriyan
2009-01-08 20:17 ` Pekka Paalanen
2009-01-08 20:53   ` [fix] " Arjan van de Ven
2009-01-08 21:22     ` Justin P. Mattock
2009-01-08 22:20     ` Justin P. Mattock
2009-01-08 22:31       ` Arjan van de Ven
2009-01-08 23:26         ` Justin P. Mattock
2009-01-09  0:16         ` Justin P. Mattock
2009-01-09  0:23           ` Linus Torvalds
2009-01-09  0:33             ` Justin P. Mattock
2009-01-09 10:05             ` Justin P. Mattock
2009-01-09 10:10               ` Tejun Heo
2009-01-09 10:19               ` [PATCH] libata: use WARN_ON_ONCE on hot paths Tejun Heo
2009-01-09 11:31                 ` Zdenek Kabelac
2009-01-09 12:03                   ` Jeff Garzik
2009-01-09 12:07                     ` Alan Cox
2009-01-09 17:10                       ` Justin P. Mattock
2009-01-09 18:39                       ` Justin P. Mattock
2009-01-11 19:58                         ` Zdenek Kabelac

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