From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752306AbZHFEfs (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Aug 2009 00:35:48 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751310AbZHFEfr (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Aug 2009 00:35:47 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:58646 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751287AbZHFEfq (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Aug 2009 00:35:46 -0400 Message-ID: <4A7A5D9D.7030305@zytor.com> Date: Wed, 05 Aug 2009 21:35:41 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1b3pre) Gecko/20090513 Fedora/3.0-2.3.beta2.fc11 Thunderbird/3.0b2 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Neil Brown CC: Mike Snitzer , linux-raid@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [md PATCH 8/8] md: Use revalidate_disk to effect changes in size of device. References: <20090802215444.4198.83094.stgit@notabene.brown> <20090802215818.4198.77041.stgit@notabene.brown> <4A7A0287.5010505@zytor.com> <170fa0d20908051803ud6ef819xdad3cafe44cc1fb8@mail.gmail.com> <4A7A2EA6.9020603@zytor.com> <19066.19060.95471.616532@notabene.brown> In-Reply-To: <19066.19060.95471.616532@notabene.brown> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 08/05/2009 08:13 PM, Neil Brown wrote: > > Thanks for the reports guys. > > I managed to reproduce the lockup and I think this patch should fix > it. > If you could review/test I would appreciate it. > > Thanks, > NeilBrown > This patch makes my system boot, whereas previously it would deadlock 100% of the time. -hpa -- H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf.