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Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 14:12:18 +0100
From: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
To: Stephen Lord <lord@sgi.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@zip.com.au>, Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] only irq-safe atomic ops
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On Mon, Feb 25 2002, Stephen Lord wrote:
> Andrew Morton wrote:
> 
> >
> >
> >Unfortunately I seem to have found a bug in existing ext2, a bug
> >in existing block_write_full_page, a probable bug in the aic7xxx
> >driver, and an oops in the aic7xxx driver.  So progress has slowed
> >down a bit :(
> >
> 
> Try this for the aic driver:

Steve,

DaveM's alternate fix has been in the 2.4 and 2.5 kernels for some time,
so given that Andrew is testing 2.5.5 this can't be the problem.

> We hit this once bio got introduced and we maxed out the request size
> for the driver. Justin has the  code in his next aic version.

Just for the record, this was/is not a bio bug, it was an aic7xxx bug
that could trigger with or without bio.

-- 
Jens Axboe

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