On 07/22/2010 10:37 AM, Neil Brown wrote: > On Thu, 22 Jul 2010 09:04:27 +0200 > Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> I'm seeing this BUG while booting: >> >> EXT3-fs (md1): using internal journal >> ------------[ cut here ]------------ >> kernel BUG at /home/l/latest/xxx/drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c:1113! > > You aren't the only one. > https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16275 > > >> I bisected it down to: >> commit 74450be123b6f3cb480c358a056be398cce6aa6e >> Author: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> >> Date: Fri Jun 18 11:53:43 2010 +0200 >> >> block: unify flags for struct bio and struct request >> >> Remove the current bio flags and reuse the request flags for the >> bio, too. >> This allows to more easily trace the type of I/O from the filesystem >> down to the block driver. There were two flags in the bio that were >> missing in the requests: BIO_RW_UNPLUG and BIO_RW_AHEAD. Also I've >> renamed two request flags that had a superflous RW in them. >> >> Note that the flags are in bio.h despite having the REQ_ name - as >> blkdev.h includes bio.h that is the only way to go for now. >> >> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> >> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@xxxxxxxxxxxx> >> >> > > Thanks for doing that. > > I suspect that problem is that "do_sync" and "do_barriers" in > drivers/md/raid1.c are still 'bool' and should now be 'unsigned long'. > > I'm not sure how wide '_Bool' is, but I'm guess it isn't wide enough. > > Could you please try changing ever 'bool' in that file to 'unsigned long' > and see if that fixes it? > Please don't. This is really bad programming, and produces slower code. You should do: diff --git a/drivers/md/raid1.c b/drivers/md/raid1.c index 73cc74f..8bd1ecb 100644 --- a/drivers/md/raid1.c +++ b/drivers/md/raid1.c @@ -787,7 +787,7 @@ static int make_request(mddev_t *mddev, struct bio * bio) struct bio_list bl; struct page **behind_pages = NULL; const int rw = bio_data_dir(bio); - const bool do_sync = (bio->bi_rw & REQ_SYNC); + const bool do_sync = (bio->bi_rw & REQ_SYNC) != 0; bool do_barriers; mdk_rdev_t *blocked_rdev; Boaz > Thanks, > NeilBrown -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html