From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758317AbYIALoM (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Sep 2008 07:44:12 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752651AbYIALn4 (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Sep 2008 07:43:56 -0400 Received: from mk-outboundfilter-3.mail.uk.tiscali.com ([212.74.114.23]:39074 "EHLO mk-outboundfilter-3.mail.uk.tiscali.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752506AbYIALnz (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Sep 2008 07:43:55 -0400 X-Trace: 164442104/mk-outboundfilter-1.mail.uk.tiscali.com/F2S/$F2S-NILDRAM-ACCEPTED/f2s-nildram-customers/195.149.44.6 X-SBRS: None X-RemoteIP: 195.149.44.6 X-IP-MAIL-FROM: alistair@devzero.co.uk X-IP-BHB: Once X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: ApsEAHtyu0jDlSwG/2dsb2JhbACBZbEggWk X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.32,307,1217804400"; d="scan'208";a="164442104" X-IP-Direction: IN From: Alistair John Strachan To: Neil Brown Subject: Re: md (regression): reboot/shutdown hangs Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2008 12:43:50 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.10.0 (Linux/2.6.27-rc5-damocles; KDE/4.1.0; x86_64; ; ) Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-raid@vger.kernel.org, "Rafael J. Wysocki" References: <200808282005.09416.alistair@devzero.co.uk> <18619.20642.697691.541752@notabene.brown> In-Reply-To: <18619.20642.697691.541752@notabene.brown> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200809011243.50300.alistair@devzero.co.uk> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi Neil, On Monday 01 September 2008 03:17:06 Neil Brown wrote: > On Thursday August 28, alistair@devzero.co.uk wrote: > > Please let me know if there's any more information you need from me. > > Thanks for the report. [snip] > So I plan to remove it. With it gone I cannot reproduce a hang. If > you can, I would love to hear about it. I haven't tested it too much but it's passed a few reboots on this box which was previously hanging reliably. I think it would be OK to merge on top of 2b25000bf5157c28d8591f03f0575248a8cbd900. Thanks for the explanation and for the fix. -- Cheers, Alistair.