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Message-ID: <20090811140824.GA2067@darkstar>
Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2009 22:08:24 +0800
From: Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@...il.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Subject: Re: mmotm 2009-08-06-00-30 uploaded
On Sat, Aug 08, 2009 at 06:13:53PM +0800, Dave Young wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 12:49 AM, Andrew Morton<akpm@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:
> > On Fri, 7 Aug 2009 21:47:00 +0800 Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@...il.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Hi, andrew
> >>
> >> Booting with this release, init (maybe getty?) reports something like:
> >>
> >> INIT: open /dev/console failed with input/output error
> >>
> >> 2.6.31-rc5 is fine.
> >>
> >> Any hints to find the root problem?
> >
> > Not really, sorry. Might be tty changes in linux-next?
>
> I bisected linux-next, find following patch as a result
>
> commit 65b8c7d9be5862ff8ac839607b444b6f6b11d2fb
> Author: Alan Cox <alan@...ux.intel.com>
> Date: Thu Aug 6 09:58:02 2009 +1000
>
> cyclades: use the full port_close function
>
> But, I did not select cyclades in my .config, nor do i have the hardware. Weird.
The above result is wrong, it's a mistake.
After a whole day's testing and debugging with linux-2.6 git tree and tty patch series, I found the patch causing this issue.
--
From: Alan Cox <alan@...ux.intel.com>
Subject: tty: make the kref destructor occur asynchronously
--
If we make the tty release in a work queue, then tty_reopen might fail with -EIO. I read the sysvinit source code, it will retry 5 times, if still failed, it will warning, then no output before login.
My distribution is slackware 12.2
I tested with following debug patch.
--- linux-2.6.orig/drivers/char/tty_io.c 2009-08-11 21:29:03.000000000 +0800
+++ linux-2.6/drivers/char/tty_io.c 2009-08-11 21:40:01.000000000 +0800
@@ -1246,8 +1246,10 @@ static int tty_reopen(struct tty_struct
{
struct tty_driver *driver = tty->driver;
- if (test_bit(TTY_CLOSING, &tty->flags))
+ if (test_bit(TTY_CLOSING, &tty->flags)) {
+ printk(KERN_INFO "tty_io.c: closing\n");
return -EIO;
+ }
if (driver->type == TTY_DRIVER_TYPE_PTY &&
driver->subtype == PTY_TYPE_MASTER) {
@@ -1255,8 +1257,10 @@ static int tty_reopen(struct tty_struct
* special case for PTY masters: only one open permitted,
* and the slave side open count is incremented as well.
*/
- if (tty->count)
+ if (tty->count) {
+ printk(KERN_INFO "tty_io.c: open count %d\n", tty->count);
return -EIO;
+ }
tty->link->count++;
}
@@ -1705,6 +1709,7 @@ static int __tty_open(struct inode *inod
int index;
dev_t device = inode->i_rdev;
unsigned saved_flags = filp->f_flags;
+ static int t;
nonseekable_open(inode, filp);
@@ -1778,8 +1783,15 @@ got_driver:
mutex_unlock(&tty_mutex);
tty_driver_kref_put(driver);
- if (IS_ERR(tty))
+ if (IS_ERR(tty)) {
+ int r = PTR_ERR(tty);
+ if (t == 5) {
+ printk(KERN_INFO "%s: %d, %d, retval: %d\n", __FILE__, __LINE__, r, retval);
+ t =0;
+ } else
+ t++;
return PTR_ERR(tty);
+ }
filp->private_data = tty;
file_move(filp, &tty->tty_files);
>
> >
> >> Another problem:
> >>
> >> When I moving mouse or pressing key the screen will become black, then restore the normal screen.
> >
> > There have been quite a lot of X problems lately.
> >
> > Could you test the bare linux-next please?
> >
>
>
>
> --
> Regards
> dave
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