Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757350AbZCCVGw (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Mar 2009 16:06:52 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756781AbZCCVGi (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Mar 2009 16:06:38 -0500 Received: from iolanthe.rowland.org ([192.131.102.54]:42154 "HELO iolanthe.rowland.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1753099AbZCCVGh (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Mar 2009 16:06:37 -0500 Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2009 16:06:34 -0500 (EST) From: Alan Stern X-X-Sender: stern@iolanthe.rowland.org To: Ingo Molnar cc: Boaz Harrosh , Jan Engelhardt , James Bottomley , , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Subject: Re: Large amount of scsi-sgpool objects In-Reply-To: <20090303205637.GA26196@elte.hu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1448 Lines: 37 On Tue, 3 Mar 2009, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > > The above diff looks like something that was sent in the past to the mailing > > > list, but only half of it. It was sent by Alan Stern. It might patch but > > > it is not applicable any more because of changes made since. > > > > That's right; it is an old version of a patch which no longer applies > > to the current kernel (the __scsi_release_buffers() call was added > > after that patch was written). An updated version of the patch has > > been submitted here: > > > > http://marc.info/?l=linux-scsi&m=123507641620649&w=2 > > ah, i missed that patch because you used the exact same subject > line. (The standard lkml convention is to use "v2, v3" > postfixes, to make sure people notice that it's an update. It > helps avoid such mistakes.) Sorry, I just forgot to update the subject line. > I've picked up the v2 delta below into tip:out-of-tree - thanks > Alan! This will also get into the next -rt release. > > Both patches will go away from the tip:out-of-tree hot-fixes > branch once the fix is upstream via the SCSI tree. > > Any ETA for that? The lockup bug it fixes is very serious. It's entirely up to James. Alan Stern -- 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/