On Mon, Dec 25 2000, Dave Gilbert wrote:
> > The most likely suspect (as someone else pointed out) is not at
> > all css (I'm not even sure what you mean by css hang?) but UDF.
>
> I mean a complete system hang when playing a CSS disc - doesn't even ping.
> Doesn't recover.
Hmm
> > Given the fs changes. Since sysrq still works, it would help a
> > lot if you could capture sysrq-p repeatedly and send it in.
>
> I think at this point the only thing that works is sysrq-b - at least the
> sysrq-u's and sysrq-s's that I've given don't seem to have cleanly
> unmounted the file system.
Could you at least check? You may need some sort of serial console too..
> > Do you have any non-css discs to beat on UDF?
>
> Yep one disc (Scanners) - it is fine - hence my reason for beleiving it is
> a CSSism (although I guess CSS makes other demands on the UDF code).
Not so. Once a css "session" has been established, data is read just
like off any other CD. But try with this patch applied, it could be
a NULL pointer deref at the wrong time.
-- * Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de> * SuSE Labs
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