From: bugme-daemon@bugzilla.kernel.org
To: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [Bug 11497] New: Polling of IDE CD status can make machine unresponsive
Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2008 09:57:18 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <bug-11497-11633@http.bugzilla.kernel.org/> (raw)
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11497
Summary: Polling of IDE CD status can make machine unresponsive
Product: IO/Storage
Version: 2.5
KernelVersion: 2.6.27-rc5
Platform: All
OS/Version: Linux
Tree: Mainline
Status: NEW
Severity: normal
Priority: P1
Component: IDE
AssignedTo: io_ide@kernel-bugs.osdl.org
ReportedBy: bhutchings@solarflare.com
Whenever a device handled by ide-cd is opened, the driver polls the device
status for up to 5 seconds waiting for a good status value. Since this is done
in the open operation, it is holding the BKL all this time. For unknown reasons
(possibly another driver bug) the DVD-ROM drives in some machines here can get
into a state where they always return status 0xd0 and ide-cd always polls for
the full 5 seconds.
hal-storage-daemon appears to open CD-ROM devices every 5 seconds, with the
result that in this state all other operations requiring the BKL can only run
at 5 second intervals. This is possibly bad behaviour on HAL's part, but the
driver also seems to be at fault in holding the BKL for so long.
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2008-09-05 13:19 ` [Bug 11497] Polling of IDE CD status can make machine unresponsive bugme-daemon
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