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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: ltuikov@yahoo.com
Cc: linux-scsi <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Infinite retries reading the partition table
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006 23:29:16 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061130232916.6cbd1408.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <117439.97789.qm@web31803.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
On Thu, 30 Nov 2006 22:34:57 -0800 (PST)
Luben Tuikov <ltuikov@yahoo.com> wrote:
> --- Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> wrote:
> > On Wed, 29 Nov 2006 17:22:48 -0800 (PST)
> > Luben Tuikov <ltuikov@yahoo.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Suppose reading sector 0 always reports an error,
> > > sense key HARDWARE ERROR.
> > >
> > > What I'm observing is that the request to read sector 0,
> > > reading partition information, is retried forever, ad infinitum.
> > >
> > > Does anyone have a patch to resolve this? (2.6.19-rc6)
> > >
> >
> > Please send a backtrace so we can see where the offending loop occurs.
>
> I posted a patch to linux-scsi
hm. Does sending patches to linux-scsi get them applied? It might, I
don't know.
> which resolves this issue:
> http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-scsi&m=116485834119885&w=2
That looks like it prevents the IO error. But why was an IO error causing
an infinite loop? What piece of code was initiating the retries?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-12-01 7:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-11-30 1:22 Luben Tuikov
2006-12-01 5:47 ` Andrew Morton
2006-12-01 6:34 ` Luben Tuikov
2006-12-01 7:29 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2006-12-01 8:32 ` Luben Tuikov
2006-12-05 20:40 ` Michael Reed
2006-12-06 5:00 ` Luben Tuikov
2006-12-06 5:08 ` Andrew Morton
2006-12-06 6:10 ` Luben Tuikov
2006-12-06 15:59 ` James Bottomley
2006-12-06 20:24 ` Luben Tuikov
2006-12-07 18:16 ` James Bottomley
2006-12-07 19:14 ` Luben Tuikov
2006-12-07 21:15 ` James Bottomley
2006-12-06 10:48 ` Etienne.Vogt
2006-11-30 1:53 Luben Tuikov
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