Re: [PATCH][2.5] BUG check in elevator.c:237

[Martin Dalecki <dalecki@evision-ventures.com>]

Jens Axboe wrote:

> That's nonsense too. I added the expiry hook to let lower levels decide
> what should happen when an interrupt timeout occurs. So there's been
> _no_ interrupt if we enter this from the timer handler.

No interrupt from the same drive right.

>>And plase guess whot? CD-ROM is the only driver which is using
>>this facility. Please have a look at the last
>>
> 
> Right, it was added to handle long commands like format unit etc.

Hmm seeks on tapes can take awfully long as well...

>>argument of ide_set_handler(). The second argument is the
>>interrutp handler for a command. The third is supposed to be
>>the poll timerout function. But if you look at the
>>actual poll function found in ide-cd.c (and only there).
>>You may as well feel to try to just execute its commands directly in
>>ide_timer_expiry, thus reducing tons of possible races ind the
>>overall intr handling found currently there.
>>
> 
> I don't know what tangent you are going off on here, I think you should
> re-read this code a lot more carefully. There's no polling going on
> here.

I think the term polling used by me is the only problem here ;-).
(I consider every command controll which goes without irq notification
just polling... whatever it polls once or not ;-).