From: "Kok, Auke" <auke-jan.h.kok@intel.com>
To: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: BUG: writing '0' to queue/rotational causes system hang
Date: Wed, 03 Jun 2009 15:52:19 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A26FEA3.4030909@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4A26E9B4.4020207@intel.com>
Kok, Auke wrote:
> I stumbled into the following bug on an Acer Aspire 1 running moblin2-beta: The
> drive misidentifies itself as being 'rotational' even though it's an SSD drive.
> drive/model = "SSDPAMM0008G1EA" - the standard 8gb SSD provided with Acer Aspire
> one models.
>
> Tuning 'rotational' to '0' at boot time causes the system to hard lock up. We're
> attempting to do this tuning early in the boot phase in order to get the right
> queueing and possibly improve startup time, so there is a lot of IO going on at
> the moment.
>
> Not sure what the real cause it so far. Test case is a simple "echo 0 >
> /sys/block/sda/queue/rotational". Doing this at idle time has no effect, so I
> suspect a race with the IO scheduler.
PEBKAC, pls ignore :)
Auke
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2009-06-03 21:23 BUG: writing '0' to queue/rotational causes system hang Kok, Auke
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