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Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2012 15:50:43 -0700 From: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com> To: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org> Cc: Li Zhong <zhong@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, arjan@...ux.intel.com, "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>, Christian Kujau <lists@...dbynature.de>, Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com> Subject: Re: [PATCH RESEND] Fix a dead loop in async_synchronize_full() On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 3:42 PM, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org> wrote: > The patch is fairly wordwrapped - please fix up your email client. > > More seriously, it does not apply to linux-next due to some fairly > significant changes which have been sitting in Dan's tree since May. > What's going on? > Those changes missed the 3.5 merge window, but now that they have Arjan's ack they should head upstream via James for 3.6. Right now they are on his pending [1] branch. As far as the comment: > It seems async_synchronize_full() wants to synchronize all entries in > all running lists(domains), so maybe we could just check the entry_count > to know whether all works are finished. ...at first glance this is what the new async patches achieve. async_synchronize_full should now sync work across all domains, but if you can reproduce this bug it would be nice to confirm that the pending changes fix it. -- Dan [1]: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/pending -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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