(Oops, forgot to copy the list) On Thu, 16 Dec 1999 06:58:45 -0600, Steve Brueggeman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I posted a patch a while back http://kernelnotes.org/lnxlists/linux-scsi/ls_9911_01/msg00002.html for problems with hangs when removing the Q-Logic F.C. module. Sounds like you're seeing more than I did. My patch fixes the problem of an incorrect signal mask for the error_handler thread. It was accepting/rejecting SIGINT and SIGTERM based on whether the scsi middle layer was compiled as a module (accept signals), or not (reject signals). I belive that the error handler should accept/reject SIGINT/SIGTERM based on whether or not the host adapter was compiled as a module, since the error handler is started on behalf of the host adapter. On Tue, 14 Dec 1999 09:16:16 -0500 (EST), you wrote: > > Last night we killed one more bug. This is what was causing the >lockups that Doug Gilbert was seeing. He is seeing a second problem that >is much less frequent that I will have to look into next. I know what the >problem is - I just need to code up the solution and test it. > > The problem I was seeing where eh_wait was getting zeroed had a >simple explaination. I was running the tests in single-user mode, and the >error handling threads are incorrectly shutting down in single user mode. >In addition, the error handling threads are sitting around as zombies >(which is why I thought they were still running in the first place), >as they are not reaped by anybody. > > I need to tweak the set of blocked signals so that it is possible to >unload a module, yet these things don't get killed by init when dropping >down to single-user mode. > > I sent off a set of diffs against 2.3.32-pre4 this morning, which >contains this bugfix plus the patches I sent out yesterday. > > I haven't had a chance to browse linux-kernel in the past couple >of days. If there is anything being said over there that I need to be >aware of, please let me know. > > I will be on vacation starting this coming Sat for about 10 days. >I will have a laptop, and I will be responding to mail (but I won't be >checking more than once a day or so). I won't have the ability to test >anything on a live kernel (no SCSI in the laptop). > >-Eric > > >"The world was a library, and its books were the stones, leaves, > brooks, grass, and the birds of the earth. We learned to do what only > a student of nature ever learns, and that was to feel beauty." > Chief Luther Standing Bear - Teton Sioux - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
