mirror of https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
To: Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Christian Limpach <Christian.Limpach@xensource.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] xen blkfront: Delay wait for block devices until after the disk is added.
Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2008 21:17:26 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <47E336D6.4020807@goop.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1206005390-18306-1-git-send-email-markmc@redhat.com>

Mark McLoughlin wrote:
> From: Christian Limpach <Christian.Limpach@xensource.com>
>
> When the xen block frontend driver is built as a module the module load
> is only synchronous up to the point where the frontend and the backend
> become connected rather than when the disk is added.
>
> This means that there can be a race on boot between loading the module and
> loading the dm-* modules and doing the scan for LVM physical volumes (all
> in the initrd). In the failure case the disk is not present until after the
> scan for physical volumes is complete.
>   

Thanks, I've queued this.

    J

      reply	other threads:[~2008-03-21  4:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-03-20  9:29 Mark McLoughlin
2008-03-21  4:17 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge [this message]

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=47E336D6.4020807@goop.org \
    --to=jeremy@goop.org \
    --cc=Christian.Limpach@xensource.com \
    --cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
    --cc=markmc@redhat.com \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body. 
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox
Powered by JetHome