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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: "linux-os (Dick Johnson)" <linux-os@analogic.com>
Cc: "Greg KH" <gregkh@suse.de>,
	"Linux kernel" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"Andrew Morton" <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	<torvalds@linux-foundation.org>, <stable@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.25.17
Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2008 21:03:52 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080908210352.2b0cd70e@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0809081535280.5096@chaos.analogic.com>

> If I remove one of the CPUs, there is no file-system corruption
> so I fear that there is some lock missing somewhere in the
> serial ATA driver code (ata_piix or sata_sil).

All the logic and locking is in the core code so would show up on all
sorts of boxes. You say you are using sata_sil - is this on an Nvidia
board ?

> If anybody has anything to test with my setup, I can readily
> test both with and without the two CPUs.

Can you duplicate this with the drives just on the ata_piix ?

Alan

  reply	other threads:[~2008-09-08 20:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-09-08 14:35 Greg KH
2008-09-08 14:35 ` Greg KH
2008-09-08 19:44 ` linux-os (Dick Johnson)
2008-09-08 20:03   ` Alan Cox [this message]
2008-09-08 20:24     ` linux-os (Dick Johnson)
2008-09-08 21:06   ` Greg KH
2008-09-09 11:59     ` linux-os (Dick Johnson)
2008-10-14 20:19 ` S.Çağlar Onur
2008-10-17 23:43   ` [stable] " Greg KH

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