[dm-devel] [PATCH 2/7] A framework for holding bios until suspend

Alasdair G Kergon agk at redhat.com
Mon Nov 30 09:41:13 UTC 2009


On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 01:02:15PM -0500, Takahiro Yasui wrote:
> Initializing the hold list in do_mirror() is a problem. Some bios might
> already in it and they will never be processed. This makes device-mapper
> "stuck" when the device goes suspend. The hold list should be inizialized
> only when the mirror device is created in alloc_context().
 
I fixed that as I merged the patch into my tree and didn't even notice the
original patch was wrong!  (I assumed it was a fuzzy patching error at my end.)

http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/agk/patches/2.6/editing/dm-raid1-add-framework-to-hold-bios-during-suspend.patch
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/agk/patches/2.6/editing/dm-raid1-explicitly-initialise-bio_lists.patch

Alasdair




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