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From: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: solt2@dns.toxicfilms.tv, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.11-rc3-mm1 bad scheduling while atomic + lockup
Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2005 10:46:35 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050208094634.GE15985@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050208014433.42320fc4.akpm@osdl.org>

On Tue, Feb 08 2005, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de> wrote:
> >
> >  > 	        ->axboe!
> > 
> >  :-)
> > 
> >  The thing wants a rewrite. Ideally the serializing point would be a
> >  special request. The patch is still better than nothing right now, it's
> >  really easy to hang the device with hdparm in -linus since it's
> >  impossible to guess when it is safe to issue tuning actions from user
> >  space.
> 
> I'm not sure which is worse, really.  I've never hung an interface with
> hdparm, nor seen any reports of it.  Making I/O errors deadly rather hurts.

I've gotten several reports of it, try to tune the drive settings with
any kind of drive activity and it will barf.

>  Will it happen on all I/O errors, or was this a special case?

Not sure, at least the crc stuff will trigger it. If you want you can
deactivate the patch for now, I'll get it fixed properly.

-- 
Jens Axboe


      reply	other threads:[~2005-02-08  9:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-02-07  7:15 2.6.11-rc3-mm1 bad scheduling while atomic + lockup Maciej Soltysiak
2005-02-07 20:19 ` Hans Reiser
2005-02-07 20:59   ` Re[2]: " Maciej Soltysiak
2005-02-08  9:00 ` Andrew Morton
2005-02-08  9:37   ` Jens Axboe
2005-02-08  9:44     ` Andrew Morton
2005-02-08  9:46       ` Jens Axboe [this message]

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