Re: Too async libata breakage

From: Arjan van de Ven
Date: Thu Jan 08 2009 - 14:26:55 EST


On Thu, 8 Jan 2009 22:15:56 +0300
"Alexey Dobriyan" <adobriyan@xxxxxxxxx> 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 ?

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