Re: [CHECKER] blocking w/ spinlock or interrupt's disabled

From: Kurt Garloff (garloff@suse.de)
Date: Fri Mar 23 2001 - 09:47:52 EST

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Hi Dawson,

On Sat, Mar 17, 2001 at 08:23:34PM -0800, Dawson Engler wrote:
> > enclosed are 163 potential bugs in 2.4.1 where blocking functions are
> > called with either interrupts disabled or a spin lock held. The
> > checker works by:
>
> Here's the file manifest. Apologies.
>
[...]
> drivers/scsi/tmscsim.c
[...]

I'm interested in this one as I'm the maintainer ...

How do I get more details on the problem?

Most other CHECKER reports have been indicating the function where the
problem occurs, this unfortunately not. Am I missing something?

PS: Very nice work! Keep on going!

Regards,

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