Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753419AbYLCMW7 (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Dec 2008 07:22:59 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751747AbYLCMWv (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Dec 2008 07:22:51 -0500 Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com ([64.233.182.186]:50899 "EHLO nf-out-0910.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751566AbYLCMWu (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Dec 2008 07:22:50 -0500 Message-ID: Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2008 13:22:47 +0100 From: "Kay Sievers" To: "Mark Jackson" Subject: Re: Badness at mm/backing-dev.c:179 Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "Haavard Skinnemoen" , "Andrew Morton" , "Peter Zijlstra" , "David Woodhouse" In-Reply-To: <49367691.5060007@mimc.co.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <49367691.5060007@mimc.co.uk> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1134 Lines: 29 On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 13:07, Mark Jackson wrote: > The following commit causes a "Badness at mm/backing-dev.c:179":- > > f1d0b063d993527754f062c589b73f125024d216 is first bad commit > commit f1d0b063d993527754f062c589b73f125024d216 > Author: Kay Sievers > Date: Tue Dec 2 10:31:50 2008 -0800 > > bdi: register sysfs bdi device only once per queue > Below is the extract from dmesg:- > > ------------[ cut here ]------------ > Badness at mm/backing-dev.c:179 That's a known issue, and will not cause any harm besides printing this warning. Andrew added the warning to catch drivers who use one single request queue for multiple devices. Currently known are mtd and floppy (triggers only if you have more than one device per driver). The drivers need to be changed to use a separate queue per device, to get rid of this warning. Thanks, Kay -- 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/