Re: 2.4.21-pre3 kernel crash

J.A. Magallon
2003-01-27T23:52:52Z

On 2003.01.28 Jens Axboe wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 28 2003, J.A. Magallon wrote:
[...]
> > Applied on top of 2.4.21-pre3-aa (no highmem), it makes my box hang on drive
> > detection:
> >
> > PIIX4: IDE controller at PCI slot 00:07.1
> > PIIX4: chipset revision 1
> > PIIX4: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
> > ide0: BM-DMA at 0xffa0-0xffa7, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA
> > ide1: BM-DMA at 0xffa8-0xffaf, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:pio
> > hda:
> >
[...]
>
> Reviewing the patch, it did have a nasty bug, didn't iterate
> buffer_heads at all so a clustered request will fail. Attached version
> should work.
>

Thanks, it works both on a box without himem and on one with 1Gb.

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