On Thu, 2009-03-26 at 12:04 +0530, Sachin Sant wrote: > Sachin Sant wrote: > > Today's next failed to boot on a powerpc box > > (Power6 blade IBM,7998-61X) with following recursive locking message. > > > > ============================================= > > [ INFO: possible recursive locking detected ] > > 2.6.29-next-20090325 #1 > After bisecting the failure seems to be because of the following > patch from James ( block: move SCSI timeout check into block ) > > http://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/8017/ > > If i back out the above mentioned patch, the machine boots fine > without any problems. Yes, that patch already got dropped for other reasons: http://marc.info/?t=123740773700002 I'm going to see if I can redo it in a better way, since moving this type of timeout checking from scsi to block is a useful generalisation. James -- To unsubscribe from this list: 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
