linux-kernel - Re: Boot failure with ext2 and initrds

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Date:	Wed, 15 Nov 2006 14:17:01 +0000 (GMT)
From:	Hugh Dickins <hugh@...itas.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>
cc:	Mel Gorman <mel@...net.ie>, "Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@...igh.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Boot failure with ext2 and initrds

On Tue, 14 Nov 2006, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> On Tue, 14 Nov 2006, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > 
> > The below might help.
> 
> Indeed it does (with Martin's E2FSBLK warning fix),
> seems to be running well on all machines now.

i386 and ppc64 still doing builds, but after an hour on x86_64,
an ld got stuck in a loop under ext2_try_to_allocate_with_rsv,
alternating between ext2_rsv_window_add and rsv_window_remove.
Send me a patch and I'll try it...

ext2_try_to_allocate_with_rsv+0x288
ext2_new_blocks+0x21e
ext2_get_blocks+0x398
ext2_get_block+0x46
__block_prepare_write+0x171
block_prepare_write+0x39
ext2_prepare_write+0x2c
generic_file_buffered_write+0x2b0
__generic_file_aio_write_nolock+0x4bc
generic_file_aio_write+0x6d
do_sync_write+0xf9
vfs_write+0xc8
sys_write+0x51
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