linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Fix race with shared tag queue maps

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Message-Id: <200709140819.00741.arekm@maven.pl>
Date:	Fri, 14 Sep 2007 08:19:00 +0200
From:	Arkadiusz Miskiewicz <arekm@...en.pl>
To:	Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@...cle.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org,
	orgis@...ld.uni-potsdam.de, ed.lin@...mise.com,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	James.Bottomley@...eleye.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix race with shared tag queue maps

On Thursday 13 of September 2007, Jens Axboe wrote:
> Hi,
>
> There's a race condition in blk_queue_end_tag() for shared tag maps,
> users include stex (promise supertrak thingy) and qla2xxx.
[...]
> I'm cc'ing users that reported stex 
> problems, hopefully they can test this patch and report back.

I'm running 2.6.22 with f3da54ba140c6427fa4a32913e1bf406f41b5dda patch from 
Linus git tree (instead of Ed Lin workaround patch) and doing heavy rsync for 
last 8 hours. No oops - seems to be working fine (+stex driver).

Thanks!

-- 
Arkadiusz Miśkiewicz        PLD/Linux Team
arekm / maven.pl            http://ftp.pld-linux.org/
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