Hi all,
I am still testing new kernels on the ip32 platform (and learning kernel structure :-)). Currently I found problems in writing to USB block devices. I may read from a pendrive without problem, but when I try to write the process stop.
This is the last part of a transcript of strace output for "pvcreate /dev/sdc" command:
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open("/dev/sdc", O_RDWR|O_EXCL|O_LARGEFILE|O_NOATIME) = 4
fstat64(4, {st_mode=S_IFBLK|0660, st_rdev=makedev(8, 32), ...}) = 0
ioctl(4, BLKFLSBUF, 0) = 0
close(4) = 0
open("/dev/sdc", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = 4
ioctl(4, BLKGETSIZE64, 0x7fbe2260) = 0
close(4) = 0
stat64(0x4e6f00, 0x7fbe2090) = 0
stat64(0x4e6f00, 0x7fbe2178) = 0
open("/dev/sdc", O_RDWR|O_LARGEFILE|O_NOATIME) = 4
fstat64(4, {st_mode=S_IFBLK|0660, st_rdev=makedev(8, 32), ...}) = 0
ioctl(4, BLKFLSBUF, 0) = 0
ioctl(4, BLKBSZGET, 0x4e6d18) = 0
_llseek(4, 524222464, [524222464], SEEK_SET) = 0
read(4, "\307^\277\322\244R\36L\252\362G\\\366\3674\310@`K\374\373"..., 4096) = 4096
close(4) = 0
stat64(0x7fbe3edd, 0x7fbe21c8) = 0
open("/dev/urandom", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = 4
read(4, "m\v\205x\374S\374\6\347\222MJGPJ|\"\300\207\376\323r\270"..., 32) = 32
close(4) = 0
open("/dev/sdc", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = 4
ioctl(4, BLKGETSIZE64, 0x4efbb8) = 0
close(4) = 0
stat64(0x4e6f00, 0x7fbe0fb0) = 0
stat64(0x4e6f00, 0x7fbe1098) = 0
open("/dev/sdc", O_RDWR|O_LARGEFILE|O_NOATIME) = 4
fstat64(4, {st_mode=S_IFBLK|0660, st_rdev=makedev(8, 32), ...}) = 0
ioctl(4, BLKFLSBUF, 0) = 0
ioctl(4, BLKBSZGET, 0x4e6d18) = 0
_llseek(4, 4096, [4096], SEEK_SET) = 0
read(4, "\1\7\2\7\3\7\4\7\5\7\6\7\7\7\10\7\t\7\n\7\v\7\f\7\r\7\16"..., 4096) = 4096
_llseek(4, 4096, [4096], SEEK_SET) = 0
write(4, "\0\7\2\7\3\7\4\7\5\7\6\7\7\7\10\7\t\7\n\7\v\7\f\7\r\7\16"..., 4096) = 4096
ioctl(4, BLKFLSBUF
The process hung during ioctl(4,BLKFLSBUF,0), but this very ioctl is issued successfully many times during the process. This time the iocl is done just after the first "write()", so I think the problem is in the write() command.
I have the same problem writing a new mbr (with fdisk or cfdisk) on this device: the device will not be changed at all.
Any ideas on what to check?
Thanks (again),
Giuseppe
