Re: problem in md?

Ingo Molnar (mingo@redhat.com)
Tue, 2 Nov 1999 02:06:02 -0500 (EST)


On Tue, 2 Nov 1999, Manfred Spraul wrote:

> cli()
> for(;;) {
> interruptible_sleep_on()

> are you aware that do_something() is called WITHOUT the global interrupt
> lock held?

yep, thanks for pointing this out. I've added asserts to sleep_on() ages
ago to fix exactly this type of breakage [check out linux-kernel archives
for sleep_on & cli], but actually forgot to fix this in the RAID code and
the asserts/warnings got removed from 2.2.

-- mingo

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