Re: System hangs after echo value > /sys/block/dm-0/queue/nr_requests

From: Jens Axboe
Date: Wed Dec 31 2003 - 05:35:10 EST


On Tue, Dec 30 2003, Mike Christie wrote:
> Andrew Morton wrote:
>
> >Where queue_requests_store() does wake_up(&rl->wait[READ]);
> >
> >It looks like nobody has called blk_init_queue() for this queue and the
> >waitqueue head is uninitialised.
> >
>
> DM, MD, rd and loop use blk_alloc_queue and blk_queue_make_request to
> initialize their queue, because they only use the make_request_fn. The
> attached patch prevents the queue from being registered if only
> blk_alloc_queue was called.

I'm fine with that patch since we don't have any attributes in there
that apply to just remappers.

--
Jens Axboe

-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/