Re: [2.6.24 REGRESSION] BUG: Soft lockup - with VFS

From: Oliver Pinter
Date: Tue Feb 05 2008 - 17:29:50 EST


i reverted this commit 7d699bafe258ebd8f9b4ec182c554200b369a504 , and
now compile ...

On 2/5/08, Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, 5 Feb 2008 14:05:06 -0800, Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
> > Looks like you deadlocked in ub_request_fn(). I assume that you were
> using
> > ub.c in 2.6.23 and that it worked OK? If so, we broke it, possibly via
> > changes to the core block layer.
> >
> > I think ub.c is basically abandoned in favour of usb-storage. If so,
> > perhaps we should remove or disble ub.c?
>
> Actually I think it may be an argument for keeping ub, if ub exposes
> a bug in the __blk_end_request. I'll look at the head of the thread
> and see if Mr. Pinter has hit anything related to Mr. Ueda's work.
>
> -- Pete
>


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Thanks,
Oliver
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