From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758397Ab2LILL4 (ORCPT ); Sun, 9 Dec 2012 06:11:56 -0500 Received: from cantor2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:36375 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752554Ab2LILLy (ORCPT ); Sun, 9 Dec 2012 06:11:54 -0500 Date: Sun, 9 Dec 2012 11:11:46 +0000 From: Mel Gorman To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Tejun Heo , Xiaotian Feng , Neela Syam Kolli , "James E.J. Bottomley" , linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: 3.7-rc8 boot failure due to recent workqueue-related patch Message-ID: <20121209111146.GB1009@suse.de> References: <20121208203524.GA1009@suse.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sat, Dec 08, 2012 at 04:50:21PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > On Sat, 8 Dec 2012, Mel Gorman wrote: > > > > Commit 8852aac2 (workqueue: mod_delayed_work_on() shouldn't queue timer on > > 0 delay) is causing the following boot failure for me. Found by bisection > > but no further analysis unfortunately until I get back home properly. > > I've added the relevant maintainers for megasas and SCSI in case it's > > somehow specific to that driver. > > This should be fixed by commit c1d390d8e612. The Megaraid SAS driver was > doing insane things, using a work-struct for delayed work, and casting > pointers around. It had happened to work for all the wrong reasons before, > the mod_delayed_work_on() changes just exposed how crazy that crap was. > Correct, it is fixed by commit c1d390d8e612. Sorry for the noise. -- Mel Gorman SUSE Labs