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SubjectRe: Linux 2.4.28-rc3
On Sat, Nov 13, 2004 at 07:27:09PM +0300, Andrey Melnikoff wrote:
> In article <20041112180052.GE23215@logos.cnet> you wrote:
> > Hi,
>
> > Here goes the third release candidate.
>
> > It contains a v2.6 backport of the binfmt_elf potential vulnerabilities
> > disclosed this week, an enhanced smbfs client overflow fix, an ACPI update
> > fixing a couple of nasty bugs, a NFS client bugfix and a network update
> > from Davem.
>
> Any chance to apply this patch before release?
>
> Prevent NMI oopser kill kernel thread when megearid2 driver wating abort or
> reset command completion.

Hi Andrey,

I talked to Atul and Arjan about this one - the correct thing to do is to
replace mdelay() with CPU yielding msleep().

We should backport msleep() in 2.4.29-pre1.


> Signed-off-by: Andrey Melnikov <temnota+kernel@kmv.ru>
>
> --- linux-2.4.28-rc3/drivers/scsi/megaraid2.c~ Thu Nov 11 19:37:13 2004
> +++ linux-2.4.28-rc3/drivers/scsi/megaraid2.c Sat Nov 13 19:20:23 2004
> @@ -39,6 +39,7 @@
> #include <linux/reboot.h>
> #include <linux/module.h>
> #include <linux/list.h>
> +#include <linux/nmi.h>
>
> #include "sd.h"
> #include "scsi.h"
> @@ -2820,6 +2821,7 @@
>
> if( iter++ < MBOX_ABORT_SLEEP*1000 ) {
> mdelay(1);
> + touch_nmi_watchdog();
> }
> else {
> printk(KERN_WARNING
> @@ -2900,6 +2902,7 @@
>
> if( iter++ < MBOX_RESET_SLEEP*1000 ) {
> mdelay(1);
> + touch_nmi_watchdog();
> }
> else {
> printk(KERN_WARNING
>
>
> --
> Best regards, TEMHOTA-RIPN aka MJA13-RIPE
> System Administrator. mailto:temnota@kmv.ru
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