linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.30-rc8 Oops whilst booting

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Message-Id: <1244483362.4079.358.camel@mulgrave.site>
Date:	Mon, 08 Jun 2009 12:49:22 -0500
From:	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...senPartnership.com>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Chris Clayton <chris2553@...glemail.com>,
	Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinder@...nel.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

On Mon, 2009-06-08 at 10:42 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 8 Jun 2009, James Bottomley wrote:
> > 
> > I think it's a bug in the async code.  It's providing cookies too high
> > because it doesn't stop after it finds a running entry.
> > 
> > Can we try this as the fix?
> 
> Ok, this looks likely.
> 
> That said, why doesn't that function look like this?

That's probably a better style ... or simply put an if ... else if to
make it exclusive.

James


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