On Fri, 23 Jun 2006 17:04:24 -0400
Vivek Goyal <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> o cciss driver initialization fails and hits BUG() if underlying device
> was active during the driver initialization. Device might be active
> if previous kernel crashed and this kernel is booting after that using
> kdump.
>
>
> ...
>
> o If crash_boot parameter is set, then ignore the completed command messages
> sent by device which have not been issued in the context of this kernel.
>
> Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <[email protected]>
> ---
>
> linux-2.6.17-1M-vivek/drivers/block/cciss.c | 7 +++++++
> 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+)
>
> diff -puN drivers/block/cciss.c~cciss-initialization-issue-over-kdump-fix drivers/block/cciss.c
> --- linux-2.6.17-1M/drivers/block/cciss.c~cciss-initialization-issue-over-kdump-fix 2006-06-23 14:04:55.000000000 -0400
> +++ linux-2.6.17-1M-vivek/drivers/block/cciss.c 2006-06-23 14:08:12.000000000 -0400
> @@ -1976,6 +1976,13 @@ static int add_sendcmd_reject(__u8 cmd,
> ctlr, complete);
> /* not much we can do. */
> #ifdef CONFIG_CISS_SCSI_TAPE
> + /* We might get notification of completion of commands
> + * which we never issued in this kernel if this boot is
> + * taking place after previous kernel's crash. Simply
> + * ignore the commands in this case.
> + */
> + if (crash_boot)
> + return 0;
> return 1;
Looks like this is working around a driver problem rather than fixing it
properly ;)
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