On 07/24/2009 05:22 AM, Warren Togami wrote:
On 07/23/2009 05:37 PM, Warren Togami wrote:
I am running into an odd issue that is supposedto be impossible.
pre-pivot/20write-ifcfg.sh is often being run but fails to write
net.*.ifcfg files because /tmp/net.ifaces does not exist at that moment.
The mount was otherwise successful, and rdbreak before switch_root sees
that /tmp/net.ifaces exists.
With plain "root=dhcp" with a NFS rootfs, it seems to never happen.
However with "root=dhcp bridge", perhaps 25-75% of the time it is
failing to write ifcfg files.
Some kind of race going on? An inspection of the code seems to me that
/tmp/net.ifaces should have already been created prior to pre-pivot?
<dillow> warren: if you don't have any ip= lines on the command line,
/tmp/net.ifaces gets created by netroot after the handler successfully
completes
<dillow> warren: I think that races with the check loop in init
<dillow> warren: single processor box?
<dillow> warren: it looks like you could get scheduled away from netroot
and the init command loop could notice that root is mounted and make it
to the pre-pivot hook during a single quantum
<dillow> warren: as a test, you could move the line '[ ! -f
/tmp/net.ifaces ] && echo $netif > /tmp/net.ifaces' in netroot in front
of the handler call
<dillow> warren: that should work around your issue. I don't think it is
a long term fix, though -- the multiple NIC case would need some work to
be clean
<dillow> warren: this would only affect NFS, as the other devices would
create /dev/root and exit that way to the mount loop
<dillow> so they wouldn't sail through the mount loop due to the
existence of $NEWROOT/proc
<warren> dillow: single processor qemu VM
<warren> dillow: so this race was happening before, only we didn't
notice it since we weren't relying on anything
<warren> dillow: any suggestions of a substitution that wont break dash?
<dillow> warren: I think it got introduced with the initqueue stuff or a
combination of that and changing the loops
Harald, any ideas?
if you rely on a udev event to complete the solution is to place a
udevadm settle
before doing anything
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