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From: Bart Van Assche <Bart.VanAssche@wdc.com>
To: "keescook@chromium.org" <keescook@chromium.org>,
	"Himanshu.Madhani@cavium.com" <Himanshu.Madhani@cavium.com>
Cc: "linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org" <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"tglx@linutronix.de" <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	"qla2xxx-upstream@cavium.com" <qla2xxx-upstream@cavium.com>,
	"martin.petersen@oracle.com" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] scsi: qla2xxx: Convert timers to use timer_setup()
Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2017 00:18:50 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1509927529.8757.1.camel@wdc.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <F16A8DFC-AF77-44A0-BDC8-F0197A314123@cavium.com>

On Wed, 2017-11-01 at 19:18 +0000, Madhani, Himanshu wrote:
> Hi Kees, 
> 
> > On Nov 1, 2017, at 11:46 AM, Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> wrote:
> > 
> > On Tue, Oct 31, 2017 at 12:13 PM, Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> wrote:
> > > This breaks out the logical steps to convert the qla2xxx timers:
> > > 
> > > 1) init_timer() -> setup_timer()
> > > 2) refactor qla2x00_start_timer() to not pass callback as argument
> > > 3) qla2x00_timer() to use timer_setup()
> > > 4) qla2x00_sp_timeout() to use timer_setup()
> > > 
> > > The resulting diff is identical to the patch that appears to lock up
> > > the driver. This should help identify which step causes this behavior.
> > 
> > Hi, just curious if there's been any progress on debugging the issue
> > you saw with this series?
> 
> Sorry for delay. I will test this series later today and post update. 

Hello Himanshu and Kees,

The qla2xxx driver does not crash if apply these four patches on kernel
v4.14-rc8 and load the qla2xxx driver on my test setup. Point-to-point
mode seems broken again but I don't think that's related to this patch
series.

Bart.

  reply	other threads:[~2017-11-06  0:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-10-31 19:13 [PATCH 0/4] scsi: qla2xxx: Convert timers to use timer_setup() Kees Cook
2017-10-31 19:13 ` [PATCH 1/4] scsi: qla2xxx: Convert timers to use setup_timer() Kees Cook
2017-10-31 19:13 ` [PATCH 2/4] scsi: qla2xxx: Refactor qla2x00_start_timer() Kees Cook
2017-10-31 19:13 ` [PATCH 3/4] scsi: qla2xxx: Convert qla2x00_timer() to use timer_setup() Kees Cook
2017-10-31 19:13 ` [PATCH 4/4] scsi: qla2xxx: Convert qla2x00_sp_timeout() " Kees Cook
2017-11-01 18:46 ` [PATCH 0/4] scsi: qla2xxx: Convert timers " Kees Cook
2017-11-01 19:18   ` Madhani, Himanshu
2017-11-06  0:18     ` Bart Van Assche [this message]
2017-11-06 19:58       ` Madhani, Himanshu
2017-11-07  4:30         ` Bart Van Assche

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