On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 05:07:49PM -0700, Dan Williams wrote: > One of the fixes I made in that interim timer api cleanup (8d32e5b2) > was to use del_timer_sync on all pre-allocated timers to make sure > nothing fired or was in the process of firing as the driver was > brought down (unlikely). The core runs under > spin_lock_irqsave(ihost->scic_lock) context, and the expectation is > that all these timeout callbacks are done in that context. I'm afraid that you'll have to fix that design mistake first. Running large amounts of code under a spinlock just is not a good idea for a wide range of reasons. -- 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
