Re: Interesting post from the MC project to linux-kernel. :block while spinlock held...

From: Ishikawa (ishikawa@yk.rim.or.jp)
Date: Fri Mar 23 2001 - 18:59:43 EST


Hello Garloff-san,

Actually, a good question.

I have been trying to find the details of the verification tool from stanford

but to no avail.
Maybe we should ask the posters from the Stanford directly.

(Oops. I thought I posted this to linux-scsi, but did I post
linux-kernel instead? Apologies.)

Kurt Garloff wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 22, 2001 at 02:24:56AM +0900, Chiaki Ishikawa wrote:
> > --- begin quote ---
> > > 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/atm/idt77105.c
> > drivers/atm/iphase.c
> > drivers/atm/uPD98402.c
> > drivers/block/cciss.c
> > drivers/block/cpqarray.c
> > drivers/char/applicom.c
> > ...
> > drivers/scsi/aha1542.c <--- some scsi files
> > drivers/scsi/atp870u.c <----
> > drivers/scsi/psi240i.c <----
> > drivers/scsi/sym53c416.c <----
> > drivers/scsi/tmscsim.c <----
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
> How do I fond about about details?
>
> R

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