Hi all, On Thu, 26 Mar 2009 08:50:03 -0500 James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > 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. I will revert it from next-20090327 as well as it is still in the for-next branch of the block tree. -- Cheers, Stephen Rothwell sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~sfr/
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