From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Subject: Re: [TEST PATCH] xen/blkfront: use blk_rq_map_sg to
 generate ring entries
Date: Fri, 06 Feb 2009 13:16:56 -0800
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Greg Harris wrote:
> It looks like this patch applied against 2.6.28.2 resolves the issue for us -- our spinner has been running for two days now without a panic.  We've been testing this by spinning around an installer which creates file systems across two disks and then installs a base Linux system and some additional software.  Previously we were running into these panics towards the end of file-system creation.  
>   

Thanks very much for testing.

> Will this patch be part of the next upstream kernel release?
>   

Yes, and it should go into the next stable kernel too.

    J