Re: 2,6.26-rc4-git2 - long pause during boot

From: Stefan Richter
Date: Wed Jun 11 2008 - 15:30:24 EST


James Bottomley wrote:
On Wed, 2008-06-11 at 12:15 -0700, Greg KH wrote:
On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 06:58:05PM +0000, Chris Clayton wrote:
Jun 11 17:48:13 upstairs udevd-event[1457]: wait_for_sysfs: wait for '/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1e.0/0000:02:0a.2/usb11/11-2/11-2:1.0/host4/ioerr_cnt' for 20 mseconds Jun 11 17:48:18 upstairs last message repeated 236 times
This doesn't look good. It looks like a udev rule in your system is
looking for a file that will never show up. That's a short way to a
long delay time :)

Try commenting out the rule that does this and see if things are fixed.

Actually, there's something seriously wrong here: ioerr_cnt is a
property of the device, not of the host (as in it will never appear
under .../host4 but under .../host4/targetX:X:X/4:X:X:X/ioerr_cnt).
Perhaps an investigation of why udevd-event is looking under host4/ is
in order.

So the change which commit b0ed43360fdca227048d88a08290365cb681c1a8 "[SCSI] add scsi_host and scsi_target to scsi_bus" introduced is leading the udev scripts onto a wrong trail?

(This commit was the one which Chris found by bisection, see http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/6/1/2)
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