Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 14 Jun 2002 18:47:45 +0200 | From | Martin Dalecki <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] 2.5.21 IDE 91 |
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Użytkownik Linus Torvalds napisał: > > On Fri, 14 Jun 2002, Jens Axboe wrote: > >>- current 2.5 bk deadlocks reading partition info off disk. Again a >> locking problem I suppose, to be honest I just got very tired when >> seeing it happen and didn't want to spend tim looking into it. > > > Hmm. There's a bug in "balance_irq()" if you are trying to run a SMP > kernel on an UP machine right now, and it _might_ be that the lockup has > nothing to do with the IDE layer, but simple with the first PCI interrupt > (as opposed to local timer interrupt) coming in.
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> I don't know. Might be the IDE code too, of course.
Just to complete the picture: I'm running SMP kernels on UP for the sake of spinlock debugging and compilatoin coverage too. But as I have already stated - I run my own patches on top of the last offical release instead of BK contents.
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