Re: Analyzed/Solved: Booting 2.6.30-rc2-git7 very slow

From: Martin Knoblauch
Date: Thu Apr 30 2009 - 05:12:22 EST



----- Original Message ----

> From: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: Martin Knoblauch <knobi@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; Mike Galbraith <efault@xxxxxx>; Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@xxxxxxx>; linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; tigran aivazian <tigran@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Wednesday, April 29, 2009 8:10:41 PM
> Subject: Re: Analyzed/Solved: Booting 2.6.30-rc2-git7 very slow
>
> On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 10:51:35AM -0700, Martin Knoblauch wrote:
> > 2.6.30-rc3-git2:
> >
> > rootfs / rootfs rw 0 0
> > /proc /proc proc rw,relatime 0 0
> > none /sys sysfs rw,relatime 0 0
> > none /dev tmpfs rw,relatime,mode=755 0 0
> > /dev/root / ext3 rw,relatime,errors=continue,data=writeback 0 0
> > none /dev tmpfs rw,relatime,mode=755 0 0
> > /proc /proc proc rw,relatime 0 0
> > /proc/bus/usb /proc/bus/usb usbfs rw,relatime 0 0
> > /sys /sys sysfs rw,relatime 0 0
> > none /dev/pts devpts rw,relatime,gid=5,mode=620 0 0
> > /dev/cciss/c0d0p1 /boot ext3 rw,relatime,errors=continue,data=writeback 0 0
> > none /dev/shm tmpfs rw,relatime 0 0
> > /dev/cciss/c0d0p4 /scratch ext2 rw,noatime,errors=continue 0 0
> > none /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc binfmt_misc rw,relatime 0 0
> > sunrpc /var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs rpc_pipefs rw,relatime 0 0
>
> Cute... I wonder how that second mount(2) managed to succeed. Could you
> check what explicit mounting of sysfs on that point *again* does?
Hi Al,

by now I know a bit more. Starting with 2.6.29, the

none /sys sysfs rw 0 0

line is already in /proc/mounts when entering userspace. So I guess it comes out of my initrd. Again, what changed?

Cheers
Martin

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