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Date: Sun, 9 Dec 2012 11:11:46 +0000 From: Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de> To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>, Xiaotian Feng <dannyfeng@...cent.com>, Neela Syam Kolli <megaraidlinux@....com>, "James E.J. Bottomley" <JBottomley@...allels.com>, linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org, Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org> Subject: Re: 3.7-rc8 boot failure due to recent workqueue-related patch On Sat, Dec 08, 2012 at 04:50:21PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > On Sat, 8 Dec 2012, Mel Gorman wrote: > > > > Commit 8852aac2 (workqueue: mod_delayed_work_on() shouldn't queue timer on > > 0 delay) is causing the following boot failure for me. Found by bisection > > but no further analysis unfortunately until I get back home properly. > > I've added the relevant maintainers for megasas and SCSI in case it's > > somehow specific to that driver. > > This should be fixed by commit c1d390d8e612. The Megaraid SAS driver was > doing insane things, using a work-struct for delayed work, and casting > pointers around. It had happened to work for all the wrong reasons before, > the mod_delayed_work_on() changes just exposed how crazy that crap was. > Correct, it is fixed by commit c1d390d8e612. Sorry for the noise. -- Mel Gorman SUSE Labs -- 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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