Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 25 Feb 2002 07:18:02 -0600 | From | Stephen Lord <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] only irq-safe atomic ops |
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Jens Axboe wrote:
>On Mon, Feb 25 2002, Stephen Lord wrote: > >>Andrew Morton wrote: >> >>> >>>Unfortunately I seem to have found a bug in existing ext2, a bug >>>in existing block_write_full_page, a probable bug in the aic7xxx >>>driver, and an oops in the aic7xxx driver. So progress has slowed >>>down a bit :( >>> >>Try this for the aic driver: >> > >Steve, > >DaveM's alternate fix has been in the 2.4 and 2.5 kernels for some time, >so given that Andrew is testing 2.5.5 this can't be the problem. >
OK, I was not aware that went in, thanks.
> > >>We hit this once bio got introduced and we maxed out the request size >>for the driver. Justin has the code in his next aic version. >> > >Just for the record, this was/is not a bio bug, it was an aic7xxx bug >that could trigger with or without bio. > Yep, bio just made it easier to get larger requests.
Steve
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