Re: __bread freezes for physical device.

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Hi,

Abhishek Gupta wrote:

> I am having trouble in using the block cache apis at the driver level. I am 
> writing a new radix tree target for LVM and for that I need to cache metadata 
> blocks at the LVM layer. For these purposes I am using the __bread() function. 
> The problem is that it works perfectly with loopback devices but the moment I 
> try to use __bread() on an actual physical device, the whole machine freezes. 
> Has anyone had this trouble before. I would really appreciate any help in this 
> regard.

Is the code available somewhere ? Did you check the output of Sysrq-t ?

Sincerly,

Thomas
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