Re: 2.5.69-mjb1: undefined reference to `blk_queue_empty'

[Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>]

On Tue, May 13 2003, Martin J. Bligh wrote:
> > I have already sent you a fix for this. Anyway here it is again.
> 
> Oops, I must have dropped it - thanks, I'll stick it in the next release.
>  
> > --- linux-2.5.69/drivers/dump/dump_blockdev.c.orig	Tue May 13 12:30:49 2003
> > +++ linux-2.5.69/drivers/dump/dump_blockdev.c	Tue May 13 12:34:09 2003
> > @@ -261,7 +261,7 @@
> >  
> >  	/* For now we assume we have the device to ourselves */
> >  	/* Just a quick sanity check */
> > -	if (!blk_queue_empty(bdev_get_queue(dump_bdev->bdev))) {
> > +	if (elv_next_request(bdev_get_queue(dump_bdev->bdev))) {
> >  		/* i/o in flight - safer to quit */
> >  		return -EBUSY;
> >  	}

this looks horribly racy (of the io scheduler internals corrupting
kind), I don't see you holding the queue lock here. some io schedulers
do non-significant amount of work inside they next_request functions,
moving from back-end lists to dispatch queue.

-- 
Jens Axboe