Re: Interesting post from the MC project to linux-kernel. :block while spinlock held...

2001-03-23 Thread Ishikawa
Hello Garloff-san, Actually, a good question. I have been trying to find the details of the verification tool from stanford but to no avail. Maybe we should ask the posters from the Stanford directly. (Oops. I thought I posted this to linux-scsi, but did I post linux-kernel instead?

Re: Interesting post from the MC project to linux-kernel. :block while spinlock held...

2001-03-22 Thread Kurt Garloff
On Thu, Mar 22, 2001 at 02:24:56AM +0900, Chiaki Ishikawa wrote: > --- begin quote --- > > enclosed are 163 potential bugs in 2.4.1 where blocking functions are > > called with either interrupts disabled or a spin lock held. The > > checker works by: > > Here's the file manifest. Apologies. > >

Re: Interesting post from the MC project to linux-kernel. :block while spinlock held...

2001-03-22 Thread David Woodhouse
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > drivers/char/applicom.c There's a rewrite of this for the new PCI API. Doesn't yet support the ISA cards because I didn't have one to test with. I'll try to get hold of one and submit it. -- dwmw2 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe

Re: Interesting post from the MC project to linux-kernel. :block while spinlock held...

2001-03-22 Thread David Woodhouse
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: drivers/char/applicom.c There's a rewrite of this for the new PCI API. Doesn't yet support the ISA cards because I didn't have one to test with. I'll try to get hold of one and submit it. -- dwmw2 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe

Re: Interesting post from the MC project to linux-kernel. :block while spinlock held...

2001-03-22 Thread Kurt Garloff
On Thu, Mar 22, 2001 at 02:24:56AM +0900, Chiaki Ishikawa wrote: --- begin quote --- enclosed are 163 potential bugs in 2.4.1 where blocking functions are called with either interrupts disabled or a spin lock held. The checker works by: Here's the file manifest. Apologies.

Interesting post from the MC project to linux-kernel. :block while spinlock held...

2001-03-21 Thread Ishikawa
Hi, I suppose that many SCSI maintainers do read the linux-kernel mailing list. However, just in case, I am quoting one of the very interesting postings that come from people at Stanford. They seem to be doing mechanical verification / checking of linux source code to hunt for potentical bugs. In

Interesting post from the MC project to linux-kernel. :block while spinlock held...

2001-03-21 Thread Ishikawa
Hi, I suppose that many SCSI maintainers do read the linux-kernel mailing list. However, just in case, I am quoting one of the very interesting postings that come from people at Stanford. They seem to be doing mechanical verification / checking of linux source code to hunt for potentical bugs. In