From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Cc: Patrick Mansfield <patmans@us.ibm.com>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>,
linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] serialize bus scanning
Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2003 10:10:04 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030915101004.B25024@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030915071305.GA820@krispykreme>; from anton@samba.org on Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 05:13:05PM +1000
On Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 05:13:05PM +1000, Anton Blanchard wrote:
>
> Hi Pat,
>
> > The patch looks fine to me, I hope James will apply it.
>
> Good to see someone else does parallel scan :)
Looks fine to me aswell. Not that I have a machine with more than
one real HBA :)
> Speaking of races... Ive been tripping one when parallel probing.
> I hit a poisoned list pointer in scsi_run_host_queues, which is being
> called out of the error handler thread. (Ive got a few scsi buses in this
> machine full of bad disks)
>
> I havent had a chance to look into it but Im guessing we are racing with
> someone calling scsi_free_sdev. Im not sure how we should be protecting
> ->siblings but it looks like we have to do something.
->siblings needs protection. I've been working for this for a long time
and should have a final patchkit soon.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-09-15 9:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-08-25 12:24 [PATCH] serialize bus scanning Christoph Hellwig
2003-08-27 20:29 ` Anton Blanchard
2003-08-27 20:35 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-09-10 7:57 ` Anton Blanchard
2003-09-11 20:34 ` Patrick Mansfield
2003-09-15 7:13 ` Anton Blanchard
2003-09-15 9:10 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2003-08-27 22:32 ` Mike Anderson
2003-08-27 22:59 ` Anton Blanchard
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