On Sun, 22 Jan 2012 at 02:36, Christian Kujau wrote: > On Sun, 22 Jan 2012 at 11:30, Jens Axboe wrote: > > What about with this on top? > > Will try. A compile on this box takes almost two hours (PowerBook G4, > throttled to 70MHz), would it be enough to remove the block/*.o files and > continue from there? OK, I did that. With the pull from linux-block.git ("for-linus") and your diff[0], the BUG is still there: [ 15.048991] BUG: spinlock trylock failure on UP on CPU#0, vgchange/911 [ 15.050579] lock: ef32a9f8, .magic: dead4ead, .owner: vgchange/911, .owner_cpu: 0 [ 15.052081] Call Trace: [ 15.053561] [eecaf9e0] [c0009de4] show_stack+0x70/0x1bc (unreliable) [ 15.055078] [eecafa20] [c0326d64] spin_dump+0x70/0xe0 [ 15.056576] [eecafa30] [c0326f48] do_raw_spin_trylock+0x58/0x70 [ 15.058052] [eecafa40] [c0512b88] _raw_spin_trylock+0x34/0xa0 [ 15.059496] [eecafa60] [c02f53f4] put_io_context+0xd8/0x184 [ 15.060953] [eecafa80] [c030343c] __cfq_slice_expired+0x1e4/0x43c [ 15.062426] [eecafac0] [c03053bc] cfq_insert_request+0x234/0x558 [ 15.063908] [eecafae0] [c02edc00] __elv_add_request+0x1a4/0x2d4 [ 15.065371] [eecafaf0] [c02f0f14] blk_flush_plug_list+0x22c/0x270 [ 15.066833] [eecafb20] [c051133c] io_schedule+0x74/0xec [ 15.068270] [eecafb30] [c0110f1c] dio_await_completion+0x60/0xf4 [ 15.069692] [eecafb50] [c0112ca0] __blockdev_direct_IO+0x1b80/0x3574 [ 15.071110] [eecafd70] [c010f438] blkdev_direct_IO+0x54/0x64 [ 15.072512] [eecafd90] [c009a424] generic_file_aio_read+0x7b8/0x808 [ 15.073890] [eecafe40] [c00d4f68] do_sync_read+0xb8/0x144 [ 15.075254] [eecafef0] [c00d6168] vfs_read+0xcc/0x1c0 [ 15.076610] [eecaff10] [c00d6394] sys_read+0x58/0xc8 [ 15.077958] [eecaff40] [c00127a0] ret_from_syscall+0x0/0x38 [ 15.079299] --- Exception: c01 at 0xfe52b90 [ 15.079302] LR = 0x1003e834 As I said before, I do have lvm2 tools installed, but I'm not actually using LVM. Grepping through the initscripts, the lvm2 init script seems to be doing the following during bootup: do_start() { modprobe dm-mod 2> /dev/null || : /sbin/vgscan --ignorelockingfailure --mknodes || : /sbin/vgchange -aly --ignorelockingfailure || return 2 } Running "vgchange -aly --ignorelockingfailure" again (that is, after the machine finished booting and printed the BUG already) does not print the BUG again, I guess that's intentional. Thanks, Christian. [0] http://nerdbynature.de/bits/3.2.0/block-axboe-1.diff -- BOFH excuse #262: Our POP server was kidnapped by a weasel. -- dm-devel mailing list dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel