Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756603Ab1FDMuc (ORCPT ); Sat, 4 Jun 2011 08:50:32 -0400 Received: from smtp-out2.tiscali.nl ([195.241.79.177]:49423 "EHLO smtp-out2.tiscali.nl" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752303Ab1FDMub (ORCPT ); Sat, 4 Jun 2011 08:50:31 -0400 Subject: Re: Mysterious CFQ crash and RCU From: Paul Bolle To: paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com Cc: Vivek Goyal , Jens Axboe , linux kernel mailing list Date: Sat, 04 Jun 2011 14:50:17 +0200 In-Reply-To: <20110603050724.GB2304@linux.vnet.ibm.com> References: <20110519222404.GG12600@redhat.com> <20110521210013.GJ2271@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <20110523152141.GB4019@redhat.com> <20110523153848.GC2310@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <1306401337.27271.3.camel@t41.thuisdomein> <20110603050724.GB2304@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.1.1 (3.1.1-3.fc16) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <1307191830.23387.24.camel@t41.thuisdomein> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 709 Lines: 21 On Thu, 2011-06-02 at 22:07 -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > And please accept my apologies for being so slow to get to it. Thanks, but it was just a week (ie, quite a quick response by my standards). > Looks healthy to me... How should I understand that? Something like: "As far as this hlist is used with RCU everything seems OK. Perhaps something is messing with the entries of this hlist outside of RCU. Perhaps additional locking is needed." Paul Bolle -- 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/