>>>>> "Sebastian" == Sebastian Herbszt <herbszt@xxxxxx> writes: >> The only change from the current workflow is that the DEL transition >> (now the reaped flag) is done before the spin lock is dropped which >> would fix a tiny window for two threads both trying to remove the >> same target, but there's nothing that could possibly fix an iterative >> soft lockup caused by restarting the loop, which is what the >> changelog says. Sebastian> James, Martin, what's the status of this patch? I still hit Sebastian> the reported soft lockup on 4.5-rc1. And you have verified that Bart's patch applied on top of 4.5-rc1 still fixes the lockup? (I know you tested a previous version) I am concerned about queuing something as a stable fix if it is just masking a fundamental underlying problem. James' comment suggests that there is something else going on. -- Martin K. Petersen Oracle Linux Engineering -- 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
