From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 5 Jan 2001 13:16:55 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 5 Jan 2001 13:16:36 -0500 Received: from nat5.tuxia.com ([213.209.134.199]:18436 "EHLO pluto.agb.tuxia") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 5 Jan 2001 13:16:32 -0500 From: Juergen Schneider Organization: TUXIA Deutschland GmbH To: Chris Mason , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [RFC] changes to buffer.c (was Test12 ll_rw_block error) Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2001 19:09:21 +0100 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.28] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII In-Reply-To: <662960000.978710044@tiny> In-Reply-To: <662960000.978710044@tiny> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01010519155400.00612@pluto> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi Chris, I don't know if this is already known, but this patch seems to solve the loop block device problem too. I've tested it several times and did not get any kernel lockups after applying the patch. Until now this was a showstopper for me but you gave the solution. Thank you very much. Juergen Schneider - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/