Re: DAC960 SMP deadlock fix

2000-09-08 Thread Andrea Arcangeli
On Fri, 8 Sep 2000, Leonard N. Zubkoff wrote: >I'm testing the modified driver out in the released 2.2.17 and getting the >following messages while running mke2fs. Is this a known problem with 2.2.17, >or something introduced by the change in waiting behavior? It's known VM problem (unrelated

Re: DAC960 SMP deadlock fix

2000-09-08 Thread Leonard N. Zubkoff
Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2000 18:33:36 +0200 (CEST) From: Andrea Arcangeli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Andrea, I'm testing the modified driver out in the released 2.2.17 and getting the following messages while running mke2fs. Is this a known problem with 2.2.17, or something introduced by the change in

Re: DAC960 SMP deadlock fix

2000-09-08 Thread Leonard N. Zubkoff
Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2000 18:33:36 +0200 (CEST) From: Andrea Arcangeli [EMAIL PROTECTED] Andrea, I'm testing the modified driver out in the released 2.2.17 and getting the following messages while running mke2fs. Is this a known problem with 2.2.17, or something introduced by the change in

Re: DAC960 SMP deadlock fix

2000-09-07 Thread Andrea Arcangeli
On Thu, 7 Sep 2000, Leonard N. Zubkoff wrote: >I tried retrieving that file but was unsuccessful; is that the correct URL? I guess I cut and pasted too much directories, sorry. I attached the file since it's small. >Is the fix simply moving the spin_unlock right before the call to

Re: DAC960 SMP deadlock fix

2000-09-07 Thread Andi Kleen
On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 09:00:29AM -0700, Leonard N. Zubkoff wrote: > WaitQueue_T WaitQueueEntry = { current, NULL }; > add_wait_queue(>CommandWaitQueue, ); > current->state = TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE; > spin_unlock(_request_lock); > schedule(); > current->state = TASK_RUNNING; >

Re: DAC960 SMP deadlock fix

2000-09-07 Thread Leonard N. Zubkoff
Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2000 16:50:51 +0200 (CEST) From: Andrea Arcangeli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> X-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> X-GnuPG-Key-URL: http://e-mind.com/~andrea/aa.gnupg.asc Hi Leonard, this night I (hopefully) finally spotted and

Re: DAC960 SMP deadlock fix

2000-09-07 Thread Leonard N. Zubkoff
Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2000 16:50:51 +0200 (CEST) From: Andrea Arcangeli [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], Alan Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-GnuPG-Key-URL: http://e-mind.com/~andrea/aa.gnupg.asc Hi Leonard, this night I (hopefully) finally spotted and fixed