Hi Marcelo Tosatti!
On Sat, Nov 13, 2004 at 01:24:50PM -0200, Marcelo Tosatti wrote next:
> On Sat, Nov 13, 2004 at 07:27:09PM +0300, Andrey Melnikoff wrote:
> > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote:
> > > Hi,
> >
> > > Here goes the third release candidate.
> >
> > > It contains a v2.6 backport of the binfmt_elf potential vulnerabilities
> > > disclosed this week, an enhanced smbfs client overflow fix, an ACPI update
> > > fixing a couple of nasty bugs, a NFS client bugfix and a network update
> > > from Davem.
> >
> > Any chance to apply this patch before release?
> >
> > Prevent NMI oopser kill kernel thread when megearid2 driver wating abort or
> > reset command completion.
>
> I talked to Atul and Arjan about this one - the correct thing to do is to
> replace mdelay() with CPU yielding msleep().
>
> We should backport msleep() in 2.4.29-pre1.
Ok, msleep() backported, but driver isn't fixed. This patch acceptable?
Prevent NMI oopser kill kernel thread when megearid2 driver wating
abort or reset command completion.
Signed-off-by: Andrey Melnikov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
--- linux-2.4.29/drivers/scsi/megaraid2.c~ Wed Jan 19 20:39:04 2005
+++ linux-2.4.29/drivers/scsi/megaraid2.c Wed Jan 19 20:44:21 2005
@@ -2819,7 +2819,7 @@
}
if( iter++ < MBOX_ABORT_SLEEP*1000 ) {
- mdelay(1);
+ msleep(1);
}
else {
printk(KERN_WARNING
@@ -2899,7 +2899,7 @@
}
if( iter++ < MBOX_RESET_SLEEP*1000 ) {
- mdelay(1);
+ msleep(1);
}
else {
printk(KERN_WARNING
@@ -4040,10 +4040,10 @@
printk(KERN_INFO "megaraid: cache flush delay: ");
for( i = 9; i >= 0; i-- ) {
printk("\b\b\b[%d]", i);
- mdelay(1000);
+ msleep(1000);
}
printk("\b\b\b[done]\n");
- mdelay(1000);
+ msleep(1000);
return NOTIFY_DONE;
}
--
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