Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1764185AbXJOV4A (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Oct 2007 17:56:00 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756876AbXJOVzw (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Oct 2007 17:55:52 -0400 Received: from hancock.steeleye.com ([71.30.118.248]:46058 "EHLO hancock.sc.steeleye.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756519AbXJOVzv (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Oct 2007 17:55:51 -0400 Subject: Re: [patch] scsi: fix crash in gdth_timeout() From: James Bottomley To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Ingo Molnar , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Boaz Harrosh In-Reply-To: References: <20071015165534.GA17833@elte.hu> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2007 17:55:48 -0400 Message-Id: <1192485348.14524.3.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.10.3 (2.10.3-4.fc7) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 821 Lines: 28 On Mon, 2007-10-15 at 10:08 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Mon, 15 Oct 2007, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > > > A further problem is probably that the GDTH timer is not stopped by a > > failed GDTH probe? > > Indeed. Maybe this is a better fix? > > That driver is pretty messy, and this should have been found ealier. > James? Boaz? It was: http://marc.info/?t=119238793200002 and that patch was my best guess for fixing this as well ... do we have someone with actual hardware to confirm it yet? (apparently QEMU uses gdth as some type of emulated controller). 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/