On Sun, 2009-05-24 at 18:13 +0200, Mikael Pettersson wrote: > I tried booting 2.6.30-rc7 on my old '486, but it fails miserably > during libata/pata_legacy's device scan: [...] > WARNING: at drivers/ata/libata-core.c:6222 ata_host_detach+0x75/0x90() > Modules linked in: > Pid: 1, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.30-rc7 #1 > Call Trace: > [<c01fbb05>] ? ata_host_detach+0x75/0x90 > [<c01fbb05>] ? ata_host_detach+0x75/0x90 > [<c01139b5>] ? warn_slowpath_common+0x45/0x80 > [<c01139fa>] ? warn_slowpath_null+0xa/0x10 > [<c01fbb05>] ? ata_host_detach+0x75/0x90 > [<c02f40e0>] ? legacy_init+0x44e/0x87f > [<c02f3c92>] ? legacy_init+0x0/0x87f > [<c0101021>] ? _stext+0x21/0x140 > [<c01890ff>] ? proc_register+0x2f/0x190 > [<c018938c>] ? create_proc_entry+0x5c/0xc0 > [<c0135ebe>] ? register_irq_proc+0x6e/0x90 > [<c02e6484>] ? kernel_init+0x6e/0xbf > [<c02e6416>] ? kernel_init+0x0/0xbf > [<c01031d7>] ? kernel_thread_helper+0x7/0x10 OK, so the basic problem here is that pata_legacy attaches the host, sees if it found any devices and detaches it if none were found. With async probing, it's not waiting until discovery is finished before deciding it has no devices and trying the detach ... the warning is because the detach is racing with the asynchronous probe. One way to fix it would be to put an async_synchronize_full() before looking for devices (try the patch below). A better way might be to separate libata into its own domain and only wait for that. James --- diff --git a/drivers/ata/pata_legacy.c b/drivers/ata/pata_legacy.c index f72c6c5..6932e56 100644 --- a/drivers/ata/pata_legacy.c +++ b/drivers/ata/pata_legacy.c @@ -48,6 +48,7 @@ * */ +#include <linux/async.h> #include <linux/kernel.h> #include <linux/module.h> #include <linux/pci.h> @@ -1028,6 +1029,7 @@ static __init int legacy_init_one(struct legacy_probe *probe) &legacy_sht); if (ret) goto fail; + async_synchronize_full(); ld->platform_dev = pdev; /* Nothing found means we drop the port as its probably not there */ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
