On Sat, 12 Jan 2013, Alex Riesen wrote:

> On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 8:39 PM, Alex Riesen <raa.l...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 6:37 PM, Alan Stern <st...@rowland.harvard.edu> 
> > wrote:
> >> On Sat, 12 Jan 2013, Alex Riesen wrote:
> >>> One more detail: I usually use the "noop" elevator. That time it was
> >>> the "deadline". And I just reproduced it easily with "deadline".
> >>
> >> I doubt the elevator has anything to do with this.
> >
> > But it looks like it does: just using the deadline elevator is a sure way
> > to reproduce the bug. The system always recovers (sometimes after a while)
> > with "noop".
> 
> And no, it does not. Not by itself, but the fact that deadline elevator was
> compiled as module certainly helped!
> 
> This explains the hanging modprobe in the dmesg output (the part after device
> connect). I still wonder, why didn't it froze at boot, mounting SATA devices
> (the root, /var, and /home are on an SSD connected by SATA)? And why hanging
> khubd at reboot?
> 
> Anyway, building the elevator in the kernel avoids the problem. Sorry for
> not spotting this earlier.
> 
> Now, who would be interested to handle this kind of misconfiguration ...

So the whole thing was a false alarm?

Maybe you should report to the block-layer maintainers that it's 
possible to mess up the system by building an elevator as a module.  
That sounds like the sort of thing they'd be interested to hear.

Alan Stern

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