Re: boot stall regression due to blk-mq: use percpu_ref for mq usage count

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 01:56:48AM -0400, Tejun Heo wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 07:55:54AM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > Jens,
> > 
> > can we simply get these commits reverted from now if there's no better
> > fix?  I'd hate to have this boot stall in the first kernel with blk-mq
> > support for scsi.
> 
> Patches going out right now.

"[PATCHSET percpu/for-3.18] percpu_ref: implement switch_to_atomic/percpu()"

looks way to big for 3.17, and the regression was introduced in the 3.17
merge window.  I'm not sure what was broken before, but it defintively
survived a lot of testing.
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