Re: [PATCH] Prevent NMI oopser

From: Andrey J. Melnikoff (TEMHOTA)
Date: Wed Feb 02 2005 - 14:44:35 EST


Hi Vasily Averin!

On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 09:42:02PM +0300, Vasily Averin wrote next:

> Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> >On Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 11:00:22AM +0300, Vasily Averin wrote:
> >>You should unlock io_request_lock before msleep, like in latest versions
> >>of megaraid2 drivers.
> >
> >Andrey,
> >
> >Can you please update your patch to unlock io_request_lock before sleeping
> >and locking after coming back?
> >
> >What the driver is doing is indeed wrong.
>
> Marcelo,
>
> This is megaraid2 driver update (2.10.8.2 version, latest 2.4-compatible
> version that I've seen),
Where ? Last version (i see announce + patch from 2.10.3) is 2.10.6.

> taken from latest RHEL3 kernel update. I believe it should prevent NMI
> in abort/reset handler.
Thnx for patch, I try it on my server at next week.

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