Re: 2.6.15-mm2

From: Jens Axboe
Date: Wed Jan 11 2006 - 09:51:58 EST


On Wed, Jan 11 2006, Jens Axboe wrote:
> It's not too tricky, you just need to correct that function prototype.
> Could you do that? Would be nice to know _exactly_ which libata
> changeset caused this malfunction. But it does of course point at the
> barrier changes for scsi/libata...

You can also try something quicker - use a newer kernel known to exhibit
the problem, and apply this patch on top of that:

diff --git a/drivers/md/md.c b/drivers/md/md.c
index 0302723..720ace4 100644
--- a/drivers/md/md.c
+++ b/drivers/md/md.c
@@ -436,6 +436,7 @@ void md_super_write(mddev_t *mddev, mdk_
bio->bi_rw = rw;

atomic_inc(&mddev->pending_writes);
+#if 0
if (!test_bit(BarriersNotsupp, &rdev->flags)) {
struct bio *rbio;
rw |= (1<<BIO_RW_BARRIER);
@@ -444,6 +445,7 @@ void md_super_write(mddev_t *mddev, mdk_
rbio->bi_end_io = super_written_barrier;
submit_bio(rw, rbio);
} else
+#endif
submit_bio(rw, bio);
}


--
Jens Axboe

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