From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755872Ab1HEKGk (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Aug 2011 06:06:40 -0400 Received: from queue01.mail.zen.net.uk ([212.23.3.234]:41733 "EHLO queue01.mail.zen.net.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753915Ab1HEKGh (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Aug 2011 06:06:37 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 1396 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Fri, 05 Aug 2011 06:06:37 EDT Message-ID: <4E3BBB00.1050101@cantab.net> Date: Fri, 05 Aug 2011 10:42:24 +0100 From: David Vrabel User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:5.0) Gecko/20110624 Thunderbird/5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk CC: Joe Jin , "xen-devel@lists.xensource.com" , Jens Axboe , Greg Marsden , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , Ian Campbell , Annie Li , Kurt C Hackel , Daniel Stodden References: <4E3A486D.7060506@oracle.com> <4E3A493C.2070103@oracle.com> <20110804194838.GA12459@dumpdata.com> In-Reply-To: <20110804194838.GA12459@dumpdata.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 82.70.146.43 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: dvrabel@cantab.net Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [PATCH -v3 2/3] xen-blkback: repleace check kthread_should_stop() to remove_requested in xen_blkif_schedule() loop. X-SA-Exim-Version: 4.2.1 (built Mon, 22 Mar 2010 06:26:47 +0000) X-SA-Exim-Scanned: Yes (on pear) X-Originating-Smarthost03-IP: [82.70.146.41] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 04/08/2011 20:48, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote: > I can't believe I didn't catch this earlier, but this a > big NO NO. Each patch _MUST_ be compile on its own. If I commit > patch 1 and this patch, the compile (actually linker) process > stops b/c xen_blkback_close is not defined: All three patches should be merged together as patch 2 on it's own will break the driver as the thread will never exit as blkif->remove_requested isn't set until patch 3. David