From: ryan <ryan@netidea.com>
To: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Kernel 2.4.0test10 crash (RAID+SMP)
Date: Sun, 05 Nov 2000 16:09:29 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3A05F6B9.6A6BE9C7@netidea.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1459.973469046@kao2.melbourne.sgi.com> <3A060BE5.8877F477@netidea.com> <14854.8617.282831.205647@notabene.cse.unsw.edu.au>
> It looks like an interupt is happening while another interrupt is
> happening, which should be impossible... but it isn't.
Dont you love SMP? ;-)
>
> raid1.c:end_sync_write calls raid1_free_buff which calls
> spin_lock_irq()/spin_unlock_irq(), which unmasks interrupts. but
> end_sync_write is called from interupt context. This is bad.
>
> Try:
[patch goes here]
>
This infact fixes the problem completely. You probably already
suspected it did, but for verification it works like a charm. Inclusion
into 2.4.0test11/whatever would probably be a Good Thing.
-ryan
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2000-11-06 8:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-11-05 21:08 Kernel 2.4.0test10 crash (RAID+SMP) ryan
2000-11-06 0:04 ` Keith Owens
2000-11-06 1:39 ` ryan
2000-11-06 3:12 ` Neil Brown
2000-11-06 0:09 ` ryan [this message]
2000-11-06 9:00 ` Jeff Garzik
2000-11-06 9:40 ` Andre Hedrick
2000-11-06 22:19 ` Neil Brown
2000-11-06 11:51 ` Jason Straight
2000-11-07 0:02 Ion Badulescu
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