On Mon, 2005-11-07 at 10:52 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > sd_issue_flush() has been altered to run scsi_disk_get_from_dev(), which > takes a semaphore. It does this from within spinlock and, as we see here, > from within softirq. > > Methinks the people who developed and tested that patch forgot to enable > CONFIG_PREEMPT, CONFIG_DEBUG_KERNEL, CONFIG_DEBUG_SLAB, > CONFIG_DEBUG_SPINLOCK and CONFIG_DEBUG_SPINLOCK_SLEEP. Actually, I do too (as far as I can on non-x86). I assume you also need a filesystem that excites this, though. Try the attached: We can probably rely on the block device having opened the sd device, so there should already be a reference held on the scsi_disk ... well that's my theory and I'm sticking to it. James diff --git a/drivers/scsi/sd.c b/drivers/scsi/sd.c --- a/drivers/scsi/sd.c +++ b/drivers/scsi/sd.c @@ -769,20 +769,16 @@ static void sd_end_flush(request_queue_t static int sd_prepare_flush(request_queue_t *q, struct request *rq) { struct scsi_device *sdev = q->queuedata; - struct scsi_disk *sdkp = scsi_disk_get_from_dev(&sdev->sdev_gendev); - int ret = 0; + struct scsi_disk *sdkp = dev_get_drvdata(&sdev->sdev_gendev); - if (sdkp) { - if (sdkp->WCE) { - memset(rq->cmd, 0, sizeof(rq->cmd)); - rq->flags |= REQ_BLOCK_PC | REQ_SOFTBARRIER; - rq->timeout = SD_TIMEOUT; - rq->cmd[0] = SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE; - ret = 1; - } - scsi_disk_put(sdkp); - } - return ret; + if (!sdkp || !sdkp->WCE) + return 0; + + memset(rq->cmd, 0, sizeof(rq->cmd)); + rq->flags |= REQ_BLOCK_PC | REQ_SOFTBARRIER; + rq->timeout = SD_TIMEOUT; + rq->cmd[0] = SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE; + return 1; } static void sd_rescan(struct device *dev) - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html