Re: r294248: boot stuck: EFI loader doesn't proceed

From: Andrew Turner <andrew_at_fubar.geek.nz>
Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2016 23:30:11 +0000
On Mon, 18 Jan 2016 22:46:18 +0000
Steven Hartland <steven_at_multiplay.co.uk> wrote:

> On 18/01/2016 21:57, Ed Maste wrote:
> > On 18 January 2016 at 15:26, Andrew Turner <andrew_at_fubar.geek.nz>
> > wrote:  
> >> the issue was we were caching reads from the first filesystem we
> >> looked at. I've committed the fix in r294291 to force the code to
> >> re-read on each filesystem it looks at.  
> > Thanks Andrew - my QEMU boot failure is not reproducible on a build
> > from a clean tree with this change included.  
> I still think there are issues in there, specifically the lookup call
> in try_load, which calls fsread should be getting bad results.

How? fsread will be called with dsk_meta == 0 so it will call the force
probe path.

Andrew
Received on Mon Jan 18 2016 - 22:30:44 UTC

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