Subject: Re: Driver retries disk errors.
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: John Stoffel <stoffel@lucent.com>
Cc: Rogier Wolff <R.E.Wolff@bitwizard.nl>,
       Romano Giannetti <romano@dea.icai.upco.es>,
       Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
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On Iau, 2004-09-02 at 15:30, John Stoffel wrote:
> I really think that we need some way to keep such deadlocks from
> happening.  I really dislike having a device lockup a user application
> so hard that it can't be exited.  There's no real reason we should be
> doing this any more.  If we have to, let the user kill it and just
> have the kernel make it into a zombie, but at least let the user kill
> it off.

If you had to reboot file a bug, none of the block error recovery code
or below should ever hang indefinitely.

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