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Message-Id: <200803212245.13659.rjw@sisk.pl>
Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2008 22:45:13 +0100
From: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>
To: Mikulas Patocka <mikulas@...ax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@...il.com>
Subject: Re: APM crashes when IO is going on
On Friday, 21 of March 2008, Mikulas Patocka wrote:
> > > I found another problem --- present in 2.6.23.1, 2.6.25rc3, 2.6.25rc6
> > >
> > > --- when I run three threads concurrently reading raw disk partition and
> > > suspend, I get 100% reproducible failure. (with one thread running it
> > > usually succeeds, sometimes fail)
> >
> > Are they userland threads or kernel threads?
>
> Useland threads. Just dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/null
>
> > > Either the on-going I/O will jam BIOS and I need to remove power to
> > > continue.
> > >
> > > Or the machine suspends, wakes up and reports "hda: lost interrupt"
> > > (2.6.23.1 was able to recover from this condition, 2.6.25rc3,6 does not
> > > recover and it is not able to send any more disk IOs).
> > >
> > > How is suspending disk IO supposed to work?
> >
> > That depends on the driver, if I understand your question correctly.
>
> The driver is normal IDE.
Do you mean IDE_GENERIC/BLK_DEV_GENERIC?
Rafael
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