RE: Boot regression (was "Re: [PATCH] genhd: Do not hold event lock when scheduling workqueue elements")

From: Dexuan Cui
Date: Tue Feb 14 2017 - 09:46:54 EST


> From: hch@xxxxxx [mailto:hch@xxxxxx]
> Sent: Tuesday, February 14, 2017 22:29
> To: Dexuan Cui <decui@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: Boot regression (was "Re: [PATCH] genhd: Do not hold event lock
> when scheduling workqueue elements")
>
> Ok, thanks for testing. Can you try the patch below? It fixes a
> clear problem which was partially papered over before the commit
> you bisected to, although it can't explain why blk-mq still works.

Still bad luck. :-(

BTW, I'm using the first "bad" commit (scsi: allocate scsi_cmnd structures as
part of struct request) + the 2 patches you provided today.

I suppose I don't need to test the 2 patches on the latest linux-next repo.

Thanks,
-- Dexuan