Re: 2.6.25-rc8-mm1: Intel SATA boot failure

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Sun Apr 13 2008 - 22:07:08 EST


On Mon, 14 Apr 2008 02:28:40 +0200 Tilman Schmidt <tilman@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> Final report, seeing -mm2 is out:
>
> - Netconsole works. (grumblestupidsusefirewallgrumble)
>
> - The hang during boot only happens with kernels compiled with
> CONFIG_CIFS_EXPERIMENTAL=y
> It also doesn't always happen at the same point in the boot sequence.
> I'm suspecting it might be triggered by some network packet.
> Anyway, it's obviously *not* a SATA problem.
> (That was just me jumping to conclusions, because ...)

I don't remember seeing a report of the CIFS hang.

It might be caused by
bkl-removal-convert-cifs-over-to-unlocked_ioctl.patch, but it's hard to see
how that could affect things before userspace has started.

> - That leaves only the messages
>
> ata1: port is slow to respond, please be patient (Status 0x80)
> ata1: COMRESET failed (errno=-16)
>
> and accompanying delays during boot, for each installed SATA disk.
> I'll try to find the time to retest this with 2.6.25-rc8-mm2.

That would be good, thanks.
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