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From: Alistair John Strachan <alistair@devzero.co.uk>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>,
	xfs@oss.sgi.com, Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>,
	Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: XFS/md/blkdev warning (was Re: Linux 2.6.26-rc2)
Date: Sun, 18 May 2008 00:12:04 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200805180012.05011.alistair@devzero.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.1.10.0805171411250.3020@woody.linux-foundation.org>

On Saturday 17 May 2008 22:17:37 Linus Torvalds wrote:
[snip]
> Jens, there's been a *lot* of breakage in the block layer. The DMA bounce
> buffer crap, and this looks like the atomic bit setting was broken too.
>
> Alistair, does the problem go away if you revert both the patch from Neil
> and the original patch that caused the need for that patch to begin with
> (ie commit 75ad23bc0fcb4f992a5d06982bf0857ab1738e9e "block: make queue
> flags non-atomic").

I did a git revert on this and manually fixed up the conflicts; I also 
reverted Neil's patch.

Unfortunately (though the WARNING is still gone) it doesn't fix the hang.

> Jens, Nick, I think that whole series just needs to be undone.
>
> 		Linus

-- 
Cheers,
Alistair.

137/1 Warrender Park Road, Edinburgh, UK.

  reply	other threads:[~2008-05-17 23:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-05-12 14:55 Linux 2.6.26-rc2 Linus Torvalds
2008-05-12 19:32 ` Bart Van Assche
2008-05-12 19:55   ` Linus Torvalds
2008-05-12 23:22     ` Kasper Sandberg
2008-05-13  1:49 ` Oops on -rc2-git1, possibly md_raid1 or xfs related. (Was: Re: Linux 2.6.26-rc2) Kasper Sandberg
2008-05-13  1:55   ` Kasper Sandberg
2008-05-13  2:19   ` Neil Brown
     [not found] ` <200805121726.15576.alistair@devzero.co.uk>
     [not found]   ` <alpine.LFD.1.10.0805120933310.3019@woody.linux-foundation.org>
     [not found]     ` <20080512164920.GE16217@kernel.dk>
2008-05-13  1:05       ` [PATCH] Remove blkdev warning triggered by using md Neil Brown
2008-05-17 18:22       ` XFS/md/blkdev warning (was Re: Linux 2.6.26-rc2) Alistair John Strachan
2008-05-17 18:37         ` Linus Torvalds
2008-05-17 18:41           ` Linus Torvalds
2008-05-17 20:09           ` Alistair John Strachan
2008-05-17 21:17             ` Linus Torvalds
2008-05-17 23:12               ` Alistair John Strachan [this message]
2008-05-17 23:39               ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-05-18 14:12                 ` Alistair John Strachan

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