On Sun, 2017-02-19 at 18:15 -0700, Jens Axboe wrote: > On 02/19/2017 06:09 PM, Bart Van Assche wrote: > > On 02/19/2017 04:11 PM, Jens Axboe wrote: > > > - Removal of the BLOCK_PC support in struct request, and > > > refactoring of > > > carrying SCSI payloads in the block layer. This cleans up the > > > code > > > nicely, and enables us to kill the SCSI specific parts of > > > struct > > > request, shrinking it down nicely. From Christoph mainly, with > > > help > > > from Hannes. > > > > Hello Jens, Christoph and Mike, > > > > Is anyone working on a fix for the regression introduced by the > > BLOCK_PC removal changes (general protection fault) that I had > > reported three weeks ago? See also > > https://www.spinics.net/lists/raid/msg55494.html > > I don't think that's a regression in this series, it just triggers > more easily with this series. The BLOCK_PC removal fixes aren't > touching device life times at all. > > That said, we will look into this again, of course. Christoph, any > idea? We could do with tracing the bdi removal failure issue fingered both by the block xfstests and Omar. It's something to do with this set of commits > - Fixes for duplicate bdi registrations and bdi/queue life time > problems from Jan and Dan. But no-one has actually root caused it yet. James
