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Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2004 16:02:30 +0100
From: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
To: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <B.Zolnierkiewicz@elka.pw.edu.pl>
Cc: Denis Vlasenko <vda@port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua>,
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Subject: Re: 2.6.4-rc-bk3: hdparm -X locks up IDE
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On Thu, Mar 11 2004, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
> On Thursday 11 of March 2004 15:48, Jens Axboe wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 11 2004, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
> > > On Thursday 11 of March 2004 15:14, Denis Vlasenko wrote:
> > > > I discovered that hdparm -X <mode> /dev/hda can lock up IDE
> > > > interface if there is some activity.
> > >
> > > Known bug and is on TODO but fixing it ain't easy.
> > > Thanks for a report anyway.
> >
> > Wouldn't it be possible to do the stuff that needs serializing from the
> > end_request() part and get automatic synchronization with normal
> > requests?
> 
> That's the way to do it (REQ_SPECIAL) but unfortunately on some chipsets
> we need to synchronize both channels (whereas we don't need to serialize
> normal operations).

Ugh yes, that gets nasty... Good luck with that :)

-- 
Jens Axboe

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