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Message-ID: <c6b1100b0906081045t47c77b94ubc89d450c3a75147@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Mon, 8 Jun 2009 18:45:51 +0100
From:	Chris Clayton <chris2553@...glemail.com>
To:	Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinder@...nel.org>
Cc:	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...senpartnership.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	NeilBrown <neilb@...e.de>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	scsi <linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org>, Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...ux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: 2.6.30-rc8 Oops whilst booting

2009/6/8 Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinder@...nel.org>:

> But reverting your patch Or if we return like this also fix chris
> problem :
>
> diff --git a/kernel/async.c b/kernel/async.c
> index 94dd36f..3b492cb 100644
> --- a/kernel/async.c
> +++ b/kernel/async.c
> @@ -96,15 +96,13 @@ static async_cookie_t  __lowest_in_progress(struct list_head *running)
>        if (!list_empty(running)) {
>                entry = list_first_entry(running,
>                        struct async_entry, list);
> -               ret = entry->cookie;
> +               return entry->cookie;
>        }
>
>        if (!list_empty(&async_pending)) {
>                list_for_each_entry(entry, &async_pending, list)
> -                       if (entry->running == running) {
> -                               ret = entry->cookie;
> -                               break;
> -                       }
> +                       if (entry->running == running)
> +                               return entry->cookie;
>        }
>
>        return ret;
>
>
>

I can confirm that a kernel built with Jaswinder's patch applied
survived 200 boots without a panic.

Chris

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