Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2008 14:19:44 -0800
From: Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@redhat.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: "Oliver Pinter" <oliver.pntr@gmail.com>,
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       linux-usb@vger.kernel.org, zaitcev@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [2.6.24 REGRESSION] BUG: Soft lockup - with VFS
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On Tue, 5 Feb 2008 14:05:06 -0800, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote:

> Looks like you deadlocked in ub_request_fn().  I assume that you were using
> ub.c in 2.6.23 and that it worked OK?  If so, we broke it, possibly via
> changes to the core block layer.
> 
> I think ub.c is basically abandoned in favour of usb-storage.  If so,
> perhaps we should remove or disble ub.c?

Actually I think it may be an argument for keeping ub, if ub exposes
a bug in the __blk_end_request. I'll look at the head of the thread
and see if Mr. Pinter has hit anything related to Mr. Ueda's work.

-- Pete
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