On Wed, 2009-07-15 at 15:08 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Tue, 14 Jul 2009 16:02:40 -0600 > Andrew Patterson <andrew.patterson@xxxxxx> wrote: > > > The following series fixes several problems causing hangs while > > rmmoding the cciss driver. In the process of fixing these hangs, I > > also reworked the the logical drive scanning kernel thread to use one > > thread per driver rather than one thread per controller. I also added > > a sysfs attribute to kick off a controller scan. > > > > .../ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-pci-devices-cciss | 7 + > > drivers/block/cciss.c | 198 ++++++++++++++++++-- > > drivers/block/cciss.h | 7 + > > 3 files changed, 188 insertions(+), 24 deletions(-) > > > > Andrew Patterson (3): > > cciss: remove logical drive sysfs entries during driver cleanup. > > cciss: use only one scan thread > > cciss: kick off logical drive topology rescan through sysfs > > > > So I assume that these are intended to fix the problem which > cciss-fix-the-termination-of-the-scanning-thread.patch didn't fix? Correct. As well as a lot of the race conditions during cleanup. > > Once we get this all sorted out, which kernel version(s) are we > targetting and why? The current problems this patchset tries to solve is that rmmod of the module hangs along with logical hot remove. I was hoping to get these in as soon as possible. It looks like the sysfs additions and the scan_thread patches initially went into 2.6.30 (if my limited git-fu is telling me correctly), so I can't call this a regression. I guess 2.6.32 then. > > Thanks. > -- Andrew Patterson Hewlett-Packard -- 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
