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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Cc: Giani <dhaval@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	Kamalesh Babulal <kamalesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Dhaval, KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>,
	Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [BUG] Linux 2.6.25-rc2 - Regression from 2.6.24-rc1-git1 softlockup  while bootup on powerpc
Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2008 23:24:18 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080221232418.b93db8d9.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080219083633.GN23197@kernel.dk>

On Tue, 19 Feb 2008 09:36:34 +0100 Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> wrote:

> But I think the radix 'scan over entire tree' is a bit fragile.

eek, it had better not be.  Was this an error in the caller?  Hope so.

> This
> patch adds a parallel hlist for ease of properly browsing the members,

Even though io_contexts are fairly uncommon, adding more stuff to a data
structure was a pretty sad alternative to fixing a bug in
radix_tree_gang_lookup(), or to fixing a bug in a caller of it.

IOW: what exactly went wrong here??

  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-02-22  7:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <alpine.LFD.1.00.0802151302210.9496@woody.linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-16  6:10 ` [BUG] Linux 2.6.25-rc2 - Regression from 2.6.24-rc1-git1 softlockup while bootup on powerpc Kamalesh Babulal
2008-02-17 19:29   ` Jens Axboe
2008-02-19  8:04     ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2008-02-19  8:36       ` Jens Axboe
2008-02-19  8:47         ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2008-02-19  8:58           ` Jens Axboe
2008-02-19  9:07             ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2008-02-19  9:09               ` Jens Axboe
2008-02-19  9:02         ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2008-02-19  9:01           ` Jens Axboe
2008-02-19 13:19         ` Kamalesh Babulal
2008-02-22  7:24         ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2008-02-22  7:40           ` Jens Axboe
2008-02-17 20:08   ` Rafael J. Wysocki

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