From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: John Stoffel <stoffel@lucent.com>
Cc: Rogier Wolff <R.E.Wolff@bitwizard.nl>,
Romano Giannetti <romano@dea.icai.upco.es>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Driver retries disk errors.
Date: Thu, 02 Sep 2004 15:59:25 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1094137165.5486.0.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <16695.11922.71461.528204@gargle.gargle.HOWL>
On Iau, 2004-09-02 at 15:30, John Stoffel wrote:
> I really think that we need some way to keep such deadlocks from
> happening. I really dislike having a device lockup a user application
> so hard that it can't be exited. There's no real reason we should be
> doing this any more. If we have to, let the user kill it and just
> have the kernel make it into a zombie, but at least let the user kill
> it off.
If you had to reboot file a bug, none of the block error recovery code
or below should ever hang indefinitely.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-09-02 16:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-08-30 16:39 Driver retries disk errors Rogier Wolff
2004-08-30 17:46 ` Theodore Ts'o
2004-08-30 18:26 ` James Courtier-Dutton
2004-08-30 22:25 ` Rogier Wolff
2004-08-31 11:38 ` Alan Cox
2004-09-02 16:23 ` Eric Mudama
2004-08-31 15:16 ` Bill Davidsen
2004-08-30 22:17 ` Rogier Wolff
2004-08-31 11:45 ` Alan Cox
2004-08-31 13:45 ` Andre Hedrick
2004-08-31 13:54 ` Rogier Wolff
2004-08-31 14:12 ` Alan Cox
2004-08-31 15:56 ` Erik Mouw
2004-08-31 15:13 ` Alan Cox
2004-08-31 17:00 ` Erik Mouw
2004-08-31 16:12 ` Alan Cox
2004-09-01 15:18 ` Bill Davidsen
2004-09-01 14:46 ` Alan Cox
2004-09-01 18:54 ` Bill Davidsen
2004-09-01 15:28 ` Romano Giannetti
2004-09-01 14:44 ` Alan Cox
2004-09-01 23:14 ` Rogier Wolff
2004-09-02 9:29 ` Alan Cox
2004-09-02 10:54 ` Rogier Wolff
2004-09-02 14:30 ` John Stoffel
2004-09-02 14:59 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2004-09-02 16:07 ` John Stoffel
2004-09-02 16:26 ` Eric Mudama
2004-08-31 22:55 ` Christer Weinigel
[not found] <fa.d48te6f.1ol6tbb@ifi.uio.no>
[not found] ` <fa.eti1vu1.2nqlj5@ifi.uio.no>
2004-08-31 0:17 ` Robert Hancock
2004-09-01 23:04 ` Rogier Wolff
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