Highbank kernel become much slower with -30.47 kernel

[Ike Panhc]

Precise-30.47 highbank kernel boots much slower then precise-29.46 and randomly have some udevd timeout messages

udevd[80]: timeout: killing '/sbin/blkid -o udev -p /dev/sda' [148]

udevd[100]: timeout: killing '/sbin/blkid -o udev -p /dev/ram13' [153]

udevd[103]: timeout: killing '/sbin/blkid -o udev -p /dev/ram2' [157]

udevd[90]: timeout: killing '/sbin/blkid -o udev -p /dev/loop5' [143]

udevd[91]: timeout: killing '/sbin/blkid -o udev -p /dev/loop6' [144]
udevd[82]: timeout: killing '/sbin/blkid -o udev -p /dev/loop1' [139]

[Ike Panhc (ikepanhc)]

It takes more then 90 seconds to boot with precise-30.47 highbank kernel, and less then 30 seconds for precise-29.46 and quantal-11.11

[Ike Panhc (ikepanhc)]

Please also refer to https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1036581 comment #3

[Brad Figg (brad-figg)]

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[Luis Henriques (henrix)]

This bug is awaiting verification that the kernel for Precise in -proposed solves the problem (3.2.0-30.48). Please test the kernel and update this bug with the results. If the problem is solved, change the tag 'verification-needed-precise' to 'verification-done-precise'.

If verification is not done by one week from today, this fix will be dropped from the source code, and this bug will be closed.

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[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package linux - 3.5.0-12.12

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linux (3.5.0-12.12) quantal-proposed; urgency=low

  [ Luis Henriques ]

  * [Config] Fix typo on control.stub.in

  [ Ricardo Salveti de Araujo ]

  * [Config] installing omapdrm specific headers for external drivers
    - LP: #1038846

  [ Seth Forshee ]

  * SAUCE: apple-gmux: Fix port address calculation in gmux_pio_write32()

  [ Stefan Bader ]

  * SAUCE: (no-up) x86/mm: Fix 64bit size of mapping tables
    - LP: #1022561

  [ Tim Gardner ]

  * SAUCE: firmware: Remove sb16 files duplicated in linux-firmware

  [ Upstream Kernel Changes ]

  * net: Allow driver to limit number of GSO segments per skb
    - LP: #1037456
    - CVE-2012-3412
  * sfc: Fix maximum number of TSO segments and minimum TX queue size
    - LP: #1037456
    - CVE-2012-3412
  * tcp: Apply device TSO segment limit earlier
    - LP: #1037456
    - CVE-2012-3412
  * cfg80211: add channel flag to prohibit OFDM operation
  * brcmsmac: use channel flags to restrict OFDM
  * gmux: Add generic write32 function
  * apple_gmux: Add support for newer hardware
  * apple_gmux: Fix ACPI video unregister
  * apple-gmux: Fix kconfig dependencies
  * vga_switcheroo: Don't require handler init callback
  * vga_switcheroo: Remove assumptions about registration/unregistration
    ordering
  * apple-gmux: Add display mux support
  * mei: add mei_quirk_probe function
    - LP: #1041164
  * mutex: Place lock in contended state after fastpath_lock failure
    - LP: #1041114
 -- Leann Ogasawara <email address hidden> Fri, 24 Aug 2012 07:13:00 -0700

[Ike Panhc (ikepanhc)]

I've test 3.2.0-30.48 on highbank machine. Reboot for several times, all of them goes smoothly and finish in 30 sec. The regression is gone.

Thanks.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package linux - 3.2.0-30.48

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linux (3.2.0-30.48) precise-proposed; urgency=low

  [Luis Henriques]

  * Release Tracking Bug
    - LP: #1041217

  [ Upstream Kernel Changes ]

  * mutex: Place lock in contended state after fastpath_lock failure
    - LP: #1041114

linux (3.2.0-30.47) precise-proposed; urgency=low

  [Luis Henriques]

  * Release Tracking Bug
    - LP: #1036581

  [ Andy Whitcroft ]

  * add support for generating binary device trees and install them in
    /lib/firmware
    - LP: #1030600
  * [Config] add dtb_file configuration for highbank
    - LP: #1030600

  [ Chris Van Hoof ]

  * SAUCE: dell-laptop: additional rfkill blacklist Dell XPS 13
    - LP: #1030957
  * [Config] Add cifs support to the nfs-modules list
    - LP: #1031398

  [ Daniel P. Berrange ]

  * SAUCE: (drop after 3.6) Forbid invocation of kexec_load() outside
    initial PID namespace
    - LP: #1034125

  [ Dann Frazier ]

  * [Config] Compile the rtc-pl031 driver builtin on the highbank kernel
    flavour
    - LP: #1035110

  [ Douglas Bagnall ]

  * SAUCE: Unlock the rc_dev lock when the raw device is missing
    - LP: #1015836

  [ Rob Herring ]

  * SAUCE: ARM: highbank: add soft power and reset key event handling
    - LP: #1033853
  * SAUCE: ARM: highbank: use writel_relaxed variant for pwr requests
    - LP: #1033853
  * SAUCE: ahci: un-staticize ahci_dev_classify
    - LP: #1033853
  * SAUCE: ahci_platform: add custom hard reset for Calxeda ahci ctrlr
    - LP: #1033853

  [ Stefan Bader ]

  * (pre-stable) KVM: VMX: Set CPU_BASED_RDPMC_EXITING for nested
    - LP: #1031090

  [ Tim Gardner ]

  * [Config] updateconfigs

  [ Upstream Kernel Changes ]

  * ideapad: generate valid key event only
    - LP: #1029834
  * mm: reduce the amount of work done when updating min_free_kbytes
    - LP: #1032640
  * mm: compaction: allow compaction to isolate dirty pages
    - LP: #1032640
  * mm: compaction: determine if dirty pages can be migrated without
    blocking within ->migratepage
    - LP: #1032640
  * mm: page allocator: do not call direct reclaim for THP allocations
    while compaction is deferred
    - LP: #1032640
  * mm: compaction: make isolate_lru_page() filter-aware again
    - LP: #1032640
  * mm: compaction: introduce sync-light migration for use by compaction
    - LP: #1032640
  * mm: vmscan: when reclaiming for compaction, ensure there are sufficient
    free pages available
    - LP: #1032640
  * mm: vmscan: do not OOM if aborting reclaim to start compaction
    - LP: #1032640
  * mm: vmscan: check if reclaim should really abort even if
    compaction_ready() is true for one zone
    - LP: #1032640
  * vmscan: promote shared file mapped pages
    - LP: #1032640
  * vmscan: activate executable pages after first usage
    - LP: #1032640
  * mm/vmscan.c: consider swap space when deciding whether to continue
    reclaim
    - LP: #1032640
  * mm: test PageSwapBacked in lumpy reclaim
    - LP: #1032640
  * mm: vmscan: convert global reclaim to per-memcg LRU lists
    - LP: #1032640
  * cpuset: mm: reduce large amounts of memory barrier related damage v3
    - LP: #1032640
  * mm/hugetlb: fix warni...

[Chris Halse Rogers (raof)]

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