Subject: Re: linux-next: boot failure

From: Sachin Sant <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 01 Jul 2009 17:22:59 +0530

Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> next-20090629 was fine.  The commits in 0630 and not in 0629 (from the
> fsnotify tree) are:
>
>       Audit: clean up the audit_watch split
>       audit: convert audit watches to use fsnotify instead of inotify
>       audit: redo audit watch locking and refcnt in light of fsnotify
>       audit: do not get and put just to free a watch
>       fsnotify: duplicate fsnotify_mark_entry data between 2 marks
>       fsnotify: allow addition of duplicate fsnotify marks
>       audit: reimplement audit_trees using fsnotify rather than inotify
>       inotify: deprecate the inotify kernel interface
>   
Stephen / Eric,

I too am facing similar issue on both Power and x86.
Culprit seems to be 2nd patch in the above list.

commit e1b79967e2b29839d16c12b534597a15d8630fc4
audit: convert audit watches to use fsnotify instead of inotify

I wasn't able to remove only patch 2 because of dependencies
on other patches. After i reverted patches 2 to 7 in the above
list, i was able to boot the machine. Then i applied patch 2
and the machine failed to boot.

Thanks
-Sachin

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Sachin Sant
IBM Linux Technology Center
India Systems and Technology Labs
Bangalore, India
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