2.6.38-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know.
------------------ From: Bud Brown <[email protected]> commit 1ddd5049545e0aa1a0ed19bca4d9c9c3ce1ac8a2 upstream. Under certain workloads a command may seem to get lost. IOW, the Smart Array thinks all commands have been completed but we still have commands in our completion queue. This may lead to system instability, filesystems going read-only, or even panics depending on the affected filesystem. We add an extra read to force the write to complete. Testing shows this extra read avoids the problem. Signed-off-by: Mike Miller <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]> --- drivers/block/cciss.h | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) --- a/drivers/block/cciss.h +++ b/drivers/block/cciss.h @@ -222,6 +222,7 @@ static void SA5_submit_command( ctlr_inf h->ctlr, c->busaddr); #endif /* CCISS_DEBUG */ writel(c->busaddr, h->vaddr + SA5_REQUEST_PORT_OFFSET); + readl(h->vaddr + SA5_REQUEST_PORT_OFFSET); h->commands_outstanding++; if ( h->commands_outstanding > h->max_outstanding) h->max_outstanding = h->commands_outstanding; _______________________________________________ stable mailing list [email protected] http://linux.kernel.org/mailman/listinfo/stable
