Bug 9457

Summary: 2.6.24-rc3 can't see sd partitions on Alpha
Product: Platform Specific/Hardware Reporter: Rafael J. Wysocki (rjwysocki)
Component: AlphaAssignee: Ivan Kokshaysky (ink)
Status: CLOSED CODE_FIX    
Severity: normal CC: kay
Priority: P1    
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
Kernel Version: 2.6.24-rc3 Subsystem:
Regression: Yes Bisected commit-id:
Bug Depends on:    
Bug Blocks: 9243    

Description Rafael J. Wysocki 2007-11-25 03:55:28 UTC 
Subject         : 2.6.24-rc3 can't see sd partitions on Alpha
Submitter       : Bob Tracy <rct@gherkin.frus.com>
References      : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/11/18/3
Handled-By      : Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Comment 1 Bob Tracy 2007-12-05 09:29:25 UTC 
Ingo suggested posting the current partial "git bisect log" output.  It's short, so I'll post it in-line.  Eleven revisions left to test at this time.  System is currently running on the kernel corresponding to the last item in the log.

git-bisect start
# good: [9aae299f7fd1888ea3a195cfe0edef17bb647415] Linux 2.6.24-rc2
git-bisect good 9aae299f7fd1888ea3a195cfe0edef17bb647415
# bad: [f05092637dc0d9a3f2249c9b283b973e6e96b7d2] Linux 2.6.24-rc3
git-bisect bad f05092637dc0d9a3f2249c9b283b973e6e96b7d2
# good: [e6a5c27f3b0fef72e528fc35e343af4b2db790ff] Merge branch 'for-linus' of g
it://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/avi/kvm
git-bisect good e6a5c27f3b0fef72e528fc35e343af4b2db790ff
# good: [42614fcde7bfdcbe43a7b17035c167dfebc354dd] vmstat: fix section mismatch
warning
git-bisect good 42614fcde7bfdcbe43a7b17035c167dfebc354dd
# bad: [a052f4473603765eb6b4c19754689977601dc1d1] Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub
/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/x86
git-bisect bad a052f4473603765eb6b4c19754689977601dc1d1
# good: [d8e5219f9f5ca7518eb820db9f3d287a1d46fcf5] CRISv10 improve and bugfix fa
sttimer
git-bisect good d8e5219f9f5ca7518eb820db9f3d287a1d46fcf5
# good: [d90bf5a976793edfa88d3bb2393f0231eb8ce1e5] [NET]: rt_check_expire() can
take a long time, add a cond_resched()
git-bisect good d90bf5a976793edfa88d3bb2393f0231eb8ce1e5
Comment 2 Ivan Kokshaysky 2007-12-11 13:09:52 UTC 
Resolved, I hope. Patch available at
http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/12/11/141
Comment 3 Rafael J. Wysocki 2007-12-20 15:51:18 UTC 
Fixed by:

commit fe4304baf26e9580ada52e4579b1b7273434d8dd
Author: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
Date:   Mon Dec 17 16:19:48 2007 -0800

    alpha: strncpy/strncat fixes

http://git.kernel.org/gitweb.cgi?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=fe4304baf26e9580ada52e4579b1b7273434d8dd