linux-kernel - Re: Too async libata breakage

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Date:	Thu, 8 Jan 2009 11:28:40 -0800
From:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>
To:	"Alexey Dobriyan" <adobriyan@...il.com>
Cc:	torvalds@...l.org, "Linux Kernel" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-ide@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Too async libata breakage

On Thu, 8 Jan 2009 22:15:56 +0300
"Alexey Dobriyan" <adobriyan@...il.com> wrote:

> commit f29d3b23238e1955a8094e038c72546e99308e61 aka
> "fastboot: Make libata initialization even more async"
> results in no findable /dev/sda2 to mount / here.
> 
> Kernel correctly sees sda as 750GB drive and the rest too.
> 
> CONFIG_ATA_PIIX is in use, everything built-in, plain partitions,
> no initrd, DM, MD etc.

hmm. 
no initrd; 

can you try an experiment?
if you edit init/do_mounts.c and find the "async_synchronize_full" call.
that is just after a while() loop. 
Can you put another call to synchronize_full to also just before that
while loop and see if that fixes it ?

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