Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757502Ab3G3VVH (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Jul 2013 17:21:07 -0400 Received: from icebox.esperi.org.uk ([81.187.191.129]:44371 "EHLO mail.esperi.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757044Ab3G3VVF (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Jul 2013 17:21:05 -0400 From: Nix To: Bernd Schubert Cc: Douglas Gilbert , Linux Kernel Mailing List , linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, "Martin K. Petersen" , nick.cheng@areca.com.tw, stable@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [SCSI REGRESSION] 3.10.2 or 3.10.3: arcmsr failure at bootup / early userspace transition References: <87r4ehfzhf.fsf@spindle.srvr.nix> <51F667C2.4020801@fastmail.fm> <87mwp5frdl.fsf@spindle.srvr.nix> <51F67959.2060803@fastmail.fm> <87fvuxdqes.fsf@spindle.srvr.nix> <51F708A4.9090207@interlog.com> <87ob9koogb.fsf@spindle.srvr.nix> <51F80294.50804@fastmail.fm> Emacs: is that a Lisp interpreter in your editor, or are you just happy to see me? Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2013 22:20:55 +0100 In-Reply-To: <51F80294.50804@fastmail.fm> (Bernd Schubert's message of "Tue, 30 Jul 2013 20:14:44 +0200") Message-ID: <877gg7n3rc.fsf@spindle.srvr.nix> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-DCC-STAT_FI_X86_64_VIRTUAL-Metrics: spindle 1245; Body=7 Fuz1=7 Fuz2=7 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1072 Lines: 29 On 30 Jul 2013, Bernd Schubert told this: > On 07/30/2013 02:56 AM, Nix wrote: >> On 30 Jul 2013, Douglas Gilbert outgrape: >> >>> Please supply the information that Martin Petersen asked >>> for. >> >> Did it in private IRC (the advantage of working for the same division of >> the same company!) >> >> I didn't realise the original fix was actually implemented to allow >> Bernd, with a different Areca controller, to boot... obviously, in that >> situation, reversion is wrong, since that would just replace one won't- >> boot situation with another. > > Unless there is very simple fix the commit should reverted, imho. It > would better then to remove write-same support from the md-layer. I'm not using md on that machine, just LVM. Our suspicion is that ext4 is doing a WRITE SAME for some reason. -- NULL && (void) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/