linux-kernel - Re: [Bug #13178] Booting very slow

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Date:	Tue, 19 May 2009 00:22:33 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Martin Knoblauch <spamtrap@...bisoft.de>
To:	Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@...y.org>
Cc:	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Kernel Testers List <kernel-testers@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [Bug #13178] Booting very slow


----- Original Message ----

> From: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@...y.org>
> To: Martin Knoblauch <spamtrap@...bisoft.de>
> Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@...k.pl>; Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>; Kernel Testers List <kernel-testers@...r.kernel.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, May 19, 2009 2:26:04 AM
> Subject: Re: [Bug #13178] Booting very slow
> 
> On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 10:15, Martin Knoblauch wrote:
> 
> >> Bug-Entry    : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13178
> >> Subject        : Booting very slow
> >> Submitter    : Martin Knoblauch
> >> Date        : 2009-04-24 12:45 (23 days old)
> >> References    : http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=124057716231773&w=4
> >
> >  The issue is still open. It turns out that starting with 2.6.29-rc1 
> /proc/mounts already has a "sysfs" line when entering the startup scripts from 
> initrd. This breaks the RHEL4 firmware hotplug script.
> 
> Is that possibly a missing/failing "umount /sys" _in_ initramfs, which
> leaves the sysfs entry in /proc/mounts behind, which then shows up as
> a duplicate when running in the real rootfs?
> 

 could be. Remains the question, why it never showed up before 2.6.29. I compared my initrd images for 2.6.28 and 2.6.29-rc1, and they only differ in the module-binaries.

Cheers
Martin

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