Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S269030AbUJEOAR (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Oct 2004 10:00:17 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S269829AbUJEOAF (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Oct 2004 10:00:05 -0400 Received: from stat16.steeleye.com ([209.192.50.48]:50603 "EHLO hancock.sc.steeleye.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S269758AbUJEN4g (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Oct 2004 09:56:36 -0400 Subject: Re: Core scsi layer crashes in 2.6.8.1 From: James Bottomley To: Anton Blanchard Cc: Alan Cox , Linux Kernel Mailing List , SCSI Mailing List In-Reply-To: <20041005114951.GD22396@krispykreme.ozlabs.ibm.com> References: <1096401785.13936.5.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1096467125.2028.11.camel@mulgrave> <20041005114951.GD22396@krispykreme.ozlabs.ibm.com> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.0.8 (1.0.8-9) Date: 05 Oct 2004 08:56:22 -0500 Message-Id: <1096984590.1765.2.camel@mulgrave> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1022 Lines: 29 On Tue, 2004-10-05 at 06:49, Anton Blanchard wrote: > > Hi James, > > > These state transition warnings are currently expected in this code > > (they're basically verbose warnings). > > > > What was the oops? > > > > I have a theory that we should be taking a device reference before > > waking up the error handler, otherwise host removal can race with error > > handling. > > Did this get sorted out? Here is an oops from a few week old BK tree. > FYI I just noticed I have disabled host reset in the sym2 driver (it > was locking up at the time and I never went back to work out why). > However, even with a host reset this could happen right? Well, the theoretical hole is fixed ... If you test the current tree we'll find out if this is indeed your problem. James - 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/