On Wed, 13 Nov 2002, Tomasz Torcz, BG wrote:
>
> today I've booted 2.5.47 and got some unpleasant, oopslooking
> messages. It's looks like some debugging info.
> I'm including dmegs output, as it seems to contain enough info.
> If any more info is needed, I will happily provide it.
> ...
> Buffer I/O error on device loop(7,0), logical block 0
> Buffer I/O error on device loop(7,0), logical block 1
> Buffer I/O error on device loop(7,0), logical block 2
> (buffer errors till the end).
These messages are not related to the uninitialized timers you showed,
but to loop slightly broken in 2.5.47: Linus already took patch below.
--- 2.5.47/drivers/block/loop.c Mon Nov 11 12:34:14 2002
+++ linux/drivers/block/loop.c Mon Nov 11 15:44:33 2002
@@ -304,21 +304,16 @@
{
struct lo_read_data cookie;
struct file *file;
- int error;
+ int retval;
cookie.lo = lo;
cookie.data = kmap(bvec->bv_page) + bvec->bv_offset;
cookie.bsize = bsize;
-
- /* umm, what does this lock actually try to protect? */
- spin_lock_irq(&lo->lo_lock);
file = lo->lo_backing_file;
- spin_unlock_irq(&lo->lo_lock);
-
- error = file->f_op->sendfile(file, &pos, bvec->bv_len,
+ retval = file->f_op->sendfile(file, &pos, bvec->bv_len,
lo_read_actor, &cookie);
kunmap(bvec->bv_page);
- return error;
+ return (retval < 0)? retval: 0;
}
static int
-
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