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DateWed, 15 Nov 2006 07:32:31 -0800
From"Martin J. Bligh" <>
SubjectRe: Boot failure with ext2 and initrds
Hugh Dickins wrote:
> 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.

Ugh. What test are you doing? kernel compile in a tight loop forever?

Andrew, do you want to drop the set for now, and we can try and
debug it outside of -mm? No reason to break your tree if we don't
have to ...

> 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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