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From: Pierre Ossman <pierre@ossman.eu>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: dsaxena@plexity.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] MMC: Add 400ms to CAFE SD controller resume path
Date: Thu, 28 May 2009 10:48:23 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090528104823.0a551ecb@mjolnir.ossman.eu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090528013629.0173522b.akpm@linux-foundation.org>

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On Thu, 28 May 2009 01:36:29 -0700
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote:

> On Fri, 22 May 2009 13:51:50 +0200 Pierre Ossman <pierre@ossman.eu> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Reading through that report, I don't believe you properly worked around
> > the bug. You only avoid bug 1339, but that's only mildly related.
> > 
> > What this workaround does is to make sure that MMC_UNSAFE_RESUME
> > actually works. But if you change cards during suspend, the VFS bug
> > should reappear and you'll corrupt the partition table.
> 
> What do you think the VFS did wrong here?
> 

Might be the block layer as well. Somehow requests associated with an
old block device end up on the queue of a new block device. I don't
see how this can happen given Linux' device model, but somehow it does.

Rgds
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  reply	other threads:[~2009-05-28  8:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-05-13 20:05 Deepak Saxena
2009-05-22 11:51 ` Pierre Ossman
2009-05-28  8:36   ` Andrew Morton
2009-05-28  8:48     ` Pierre Ossman [this message]
2009-06-04 23:33       ` Deepak Saxena
2009-06-13 10:34         ` Pierre Ossman

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