On 2011-03-29 08:19, Rob Landley wrote: > Using the attached config (run through oldconfig and holding down > enter), 2.6.38 boots but current -git hangs. I've bisected it to this > commit: > > 7eaceaccab5f40bbfda044629a6298616aeaed50 is the first bad commit > commit 7eaceaccab5f40bbfda044629a6298616aeaed50 > Author: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > Date: Thu Mar 10 08:52:07 2011 +0100 > > block: remove per-queue plugging > > Code has been converted over to the new explicit on-stack plugging, > and delay users have been converted to use the new API for that. > So lets kill off the old plugging along with aops->sync_page(). > > Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > > I suspect it broke CONFIG_IDE_GD_ATA. (The symptoms change a bit in > later versions, when that was first introduced it hung right after > discovering hda, now it makes it to freeing kernel memory and then hangs > trying to launch init. But "the disk hangs a lot" still seems to > describe the problem.) That is the case even with 9ced0b95b3993660e7990cf6bf68c1a80f31544e, which was otherwise supposed to fix this queue stall? -- Jens Axboe -- 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