The patch titled
cciss: fix the termination of the scanning thread
has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was
cciss-fix-the-termination-of-the-scanning-thread.patch
This patch was dropped because an alternative patch was merged
The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/
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Subject: cciss: fix the termination of the scanning thread
From: Mike Miller <mike.miller@xxxxxx>
scan_thread may be block in wait_for_completion(), and kthread_stop() is
not sufficient to break a wait_for_completion(). Add the needed
complete().
This should fix hangs which some testers reported.
Signed-off-by: Mike Miller <mike.miller@xxxxxx>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/block/cciss.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
diff -puN drivers/block/cciss.c~cciss-fix-the-termination-of-the-scanning-thread drivers/block/cciss.c
--- a/drivers/block/cciss.c~cciss-fix-the-termination-of-the-scanning-thread
+++ a/drivers/block/cciss.c
@@ -4125,6 +4125,7 @@ static void __devexit cciss_remove_one(s
return;
}
+ complete(hba[i]->rescan_wait);
kthread_stop(hba[i]->cciss_scan_thread);
remove_proc_entry(hba[i]->devname, proc_cciss);
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from mike.miller@xxxxxx are
linux-next.patch
cciss-remove-logical-drive-sysfs-entries-during-driver-cleanup.patch
cciss-use-only-one-scan-thread.patch
cciss-kick-off-logical-drive-topology-rescan-through-sysfs.patch
cciss-fix-the-termination-of-the-scanning-thread.patch
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