Re: kern/52147: deadlock when booting from USB disk

[christos%zoulas.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

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From: christos%zoulas.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)
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Subject: Re: kern/52147: deadlock when booting from USB disk
Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2017 08:25:18 -0400

 On Apr 12,  5:30am, mlelstv%serpens.de@localhost (Michael van Elst) wrote:
 -- Subject: Re: kern/52147: deadlock when booting from USB disk
 
 |  >Can you print the deadlock path? Or instructions how to reproduce it?
 |  
 |  This here happened on RPI with root on an a USB drive and filesystems
 |  using WAPBL. The deadlock occurs shortly after starting userland
 |  when a journal is played back (e.g. when root is remounted).
 |  
 |  This could happen on all archs with SCSI disks.
 
 Yes, I understand.
 
 |  The journal play back triggered a SCSI error (bad MODE SENSE) which triggers
 |  a scsiverbose message which triggers the autoload but which cannot access
 |  the sd device because REQUEST SENSE processing has the periph frozen.
 |  Also, the message is printed synchronously in the completion thread, so
 |  even when you offload the module loading, no other error on the same scsi
 |  bus could be processed.
 |  
 |  A workaround was to put scsiverbose into /etc/modules.conf which is
 |  done while root is still read-only.
 
 But hasn't the bad MODE SENSE been fixed now? I.e. the code was changed
 back not to do MODE SENSE? Or do we need the notion of "root is currently
 being mounted"?
 
 christos