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From: Jim Ramsay <jim.ramsay@gmail.com>
To: Linux-ide <linux-ide@vger.kernel.org>,
	Lukasz Kosewski <lkosewsk@gmail.com>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>,
	linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] Add disk hotswap support to libata RESEND #2
Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2005 16:43:51 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4789af9e050823154364c8e9eb@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4789af9e050823124140eb924f@mail.gmail.com>

On 8/23/05, Jim Ramsay <jim.ramsay@gmail.com> wrote:
> Then I must have found an undocumented feature!  I've applied this set
> of patches to a 2.6.11 kernel (with few problems) and ran into a bunch
> of "scheduling while atomic" errors when hotplugging a drive, culprit
> being probably scsi_sysfs.c where scsi_remove_device locks a mutex, or
> perhaps when it then calls class_device_unregister, which does a
> 'down_write'.

After further debugging, it appears that the problem is the debounce
timer in libata-core.c.

Timers appear to operate in an atomic context, so timers should not be
allowed to call scsi_remove_device, which eventually schedules.

Any suggestions on the best way to fix this?

-- 
Jim Ramsay
"Me fail English?  That's unpossible!"

  reply	other threads:[~2005-08-23 22:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-08-01 10:02 [PATCH 3/3] Add disk hotswap support to libata RESEND #2 Lukasz Kosewski
2005-08-23 19:41 ` Jim Ramsay
2005-08-23 22:43   ` Jim Ramsay [this message]
2005-08-23 22:56     ` George Anzinger
2005-08-24  1:20       ` Stefan Richter
2005-08-24 14:03         ` Lukasz Kosewski
2005-08-24 15:11           ` Jim Ramsay
2005-08-24 16:12             ` Jim Ramsay
     [not found]               ` <4789af9e0508291223435f174@mail.gmail.com>
2005-09-06 19:02                 ` Jim Ramsay
2005-09-15  4:40                   ` Lukasz Kosewski
2005-09-16 16:11                     ` Mark Lord

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