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From: Frederik Deweerdt <deweerdt@free.fr>
To: Michal Piotrowski <michal.k.k.piotrowski@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Mattia Dongili <malattia@linux.it>,
	Laurent Riffard <laurent.riffard@free.fr>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, axboe@kernel.dk,
	Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Subject: Re: [-mm patch] fix locking in __make_request (was Re: 2.6.20-mm2: Oops in generic_make_request)
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2007 14:32:01 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070220143201.GH566@slug> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <45D9AF43.6010406@googlemail.com>

On Mon, Feb 19, 2007 at 03:08:03PM +0100, Michal Piotrowski wrote:
> Michal Piotrowski napisał(a):
> > Hi Frederik,
> > 
> > On 20/02/07, Frederik Deweerdt <deweerdt@free.fr> wrote:
> >> Hi Michal,
> >>
> >> This seems to be a locking problem in __make_request, check_plug_merge()
> >> should be called with the q->queue_lock held.
> >> Could you try the following patch? It silenced the oops for me.
> > 
> > For me too, but Jens dislikes this patch.
> 
> Now I know why...
> 
> Code:  Bad EIP value.
> EIP: [<6b6b6b6b>] 0x6b6b6b6b SS:ESP 0068:f45f9bf8

:) It may not be related though. I think that my patch avoids the
BUG_ON(!rq_mergeable(req)); in ll_rw_blk.c:2782. This looks like another
beast to me.

Regards,
Frederik

  reply	other threads:[~2007-02-19 14:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 77+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-02-18  5:51 2.6.20-mm2 Andrew Morton
2007-02-18  6:18 ` 2.6.20-mm2 Dave Airlie
2007-02-18  6:34   ` 2.6.20-mm2 Andrew Morton
2007-02-18 12:44 ` 2.6.20-mm2 Rafael J. Wysocki
2007-02-18 19:43   ` 2.6.20-mm2 Andrew Morton
2007-02-18 23:25     ` 2.6.20-mm2 Rafael J. Wysocki
2007-02-18 23:39       ` 2.6.20-mm2 Michal Piotrowski
2007-02-19  0:00       ` 2.6.20-mm2 Andrew Morton
2007-02-19 11:28         ` 2.6.20-mm2 Rafael J. Wysocki
2007-02-19 11:45           ` 2.6.20-mm2 Michal Piotrowski
2007-02-20  0:04             ` 2.6.20-mm2 Rafael J. Wysocki
2007-02-20 21:16               ` 2.6.20-mm2 Rafael J. Wysocki
2007-02-20 21:46                 ` 2.6.20-mm2 Jeff Garzik
2007-02-20  0:43         ` 2.6.20-mm2 Rafael J. Wysocki
2007-02-20  1:20     ` 2.6.20-mm2 Rafael J. Wysocki
2007-02-20  6:31       ` 2.6.20-mm2 Andrew Morton
2007-02-20 22:12         ` 2.6.20-mm2 Rafael J. Wysocki
2007-02-18 13:06 ` 2.6.20-mm2: Oops in generic_make_request Laurent Riffard
2007-02-18 17:58   ` Mattia Dongili
2007-02-18 19:49     ` Andrew Morton
2007-02-18 20:05       ` Michal Piotrowski
2007-02-20 13:04         ` [-mm patch] fix locking in __make_request (was Re: 2.6.20-mm2: Oops in generic_make_request) Frederik Deweerdt
2007-02-19 13:34           ` Jens Axboe
2007-02-20 14:29             ` Frederik Deweerdt
2007-02-19 13:52           ` Michal Piotrowski
2007-02-19 14:08             ` Michal Piotrowski
2007-02-20 14:32               ` Frederik Deweerdt [this message]
2007-02-18 18:20 ` 2.6.20-mm2 Michal Piotrowski
2007-02-18 23:32 ` 2.6.20-mm2 Rafael J. Wysocki
2007-02-19  0:28   ` 2.6.20-mm2 Andrew Morton
2007-02-19  5:13     ` 2.6.20-mm2 David Brownell
2007-02-20 22:07       ` 2.6.20-mm2 Rafael J. Wysocki
2007-02-22  3:57         ` 2.6.20-mm2 David Brownell
2007-02-22  8:33           ` 2.6.20-mm2 Rafael J. Wysocki
2007-02-22 22:17             ` 2.6.20-mm2 David Brownell
2007-02-23 16:36         ` 2.6.20-mm2 David Brownell
2007-03-04 22:36           ` 2.6.20-mm2 Rafael J. Wysocki
2007-02-19 18:28     ` 2.6.20-mm2 Rafael J. Wysocki
2007-02-18 23:33 ` 2.6.20-mm2: compilation fix Rafael J. Wysocki
2007-02-19  0:29   ` Andrew Morton
2007-02-19 11:33     ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2007-02-20  0:07 ` [-mm patch] fs/9p/vfs_addr.c: make 2 functions static Adrian Bunk
2007-02-20  0:54   ` Eric Van Hensbergen
2007-02-20  0:07 ` [-mm patch] drivers/mmc/Kconfig source drivers/mmc/card/Kconfig Adrian Bunk
2007-02-20  6:45   ` Pierre Ossman
2007-02-20  0:08 ` [-mm patch] drivers/video/sm501fb.c: make 4 functions static Adrian Bunk
2007-02-20  0:08 ` 2.6.20-mm2: BLOCK=n compile error Adrian Bunk
2007-02-20  0:08 ` [-mm patch] UNION_FS must depend on SLAB Adrian Bunk
2007-02-20  6:37   ` Pekka Enberg
2007-02-20 15:13     ` Josef Sipek
2007-02-21  3:07       ` [Unionfs] " hooanon05
2007-02-21 22:19       ` Andrew Morton
2007-02-22  2:00         ` Josef Sipek
2007-02-22  2:26           ` Andrew Morton
2007-02-22  3:10             ` Josef Sipek
2007-02-22  6:17             ` Pekka Enberg
2007-02-22  6:18               ` Pekka Enberg
2007-02-22  6:28                 ` Josef Sipek
2007-02-22  6:42               ` Christoph Lameter
2007-02-22  2:33           ` [Unionfs] " Erez Zadok
2007-02-21  5:19   ` Josef Sipek
2007-02-20  7:39 ` 2.6.20-mm2 KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2007-02-20 10:06 ` 2.6.20-mm2 Andy Whitcroft
2007-02-20 11:14 ` 2.6.20-mm2 Maciej Rutecki
2007-02-20 11:38 ` 2.6.20-mm2 Maciej Rutecki
2007-02-20 21:23 ` 2.6.20-mm2: possible recursive locking detected (reiserfs-related) Rafael J. Wysocki
2007-02-20 22:48   ` Tilman Schmidt
2007-02-21 10:52 ` [-mm patch] MTD_UBI_DEBUG must depend on SYSFS Adrian Bunk
2007-02-21 11:57 ` [-mm patch] i386 mpparse.c: remove an unused variable Adrian Bunk
2007-02-25 13:15 ` 2.6.20-mm2 Jean Delvare
2007-02-27 20:25   ` 2.6.20-mm2 Andrew Morton
2007-02-28  9:07     ` 2.6.20-mm2 Jean Delvare
2007-02-26 22:23 ` [-mm patch] LGUEST must depend on NET Adrian Bunk
2007-02-26 23:42   ` Rusty Russell
2007-03-01 10:48 ` [-mm patch] arch/i386/xen/: possible cleanups Adrian Bunk
2007-03-01 10:53   ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-03-01 11:55     ` Adrian Bunk

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