linux-kernel - Re: [BUG] 2.6.29-rc6-2450cf in scsi_lib.c (was: Large amount of scsi-sgpool)objects

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Date:	Wed, 4 Mar 2009 00:07:46 +0100 (CET)
From:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...ozas.de>
cc:	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...senPartnership.com>,
	Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@...asas.com>,
	linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [BUG] 2.6.29-rc6-2450cf in scsi_lib.c (was: Large amount of
 scsi-sgpool)objects

On Tue, 3 Mar 2009, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> On Tuesday 2009-03-03 23:07, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> 
> >On Tue, 3 Mar 2009, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> >> My bad. I was playing with that to get rid of the aic7xxx wreckage on
> >> one of my test boxen and forgot to remove it.
> >
> >While the one below is definitey not my fault. It's on Linus latest:
> >
> > commit 2450cf51a1bdba7037e91b1bcc494b01c58aaf66
> 
> That commit seems to have nothing to do with filesystems or scsi:
> 
> commit 2450cf51a1bdba7037e91b1bcc494b01c58aaf66
> Author: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
> Date:   Mon Mar 2 16:23:33 2009 -0800
> 
>     Revert "menu: fix embedded menu snafu"
> 

Errm. The commit merily indicates which point of Linus tree I'm using
and nothing else. I'm well aware that this commit has nothing to do
with scsi.
 
> >While compiling a kernel I triggerred the BUG below. Not so nice as it
> >took a whole filesystem with it. fsck took more than 20 min to recover
> >the leftovers :(
> 
> Stop using ext3 ;-)

Thanks for the real useful advise.

       tglx


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