Date: Thu, 6 May 2004 14:05:42 +0200 From: Mark Santcroos <marks@ripe.net> To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> Cc: S?ren Schmidt <sos@DeepCore.dk> Subject: Re: ATA_FLUSHCACHE failing Message-ID: <20040506120541.GA1131@laptop.6bone.nl> In-Reply-To: <20040506212202.O19882@gamplex.bde.org> References: <20040505195425.GA2559@laptop.6bone.nl> <409948A7.1040100@DeepCore.dk> <20040506212202.O19882@gamplex.bde.org>
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On Thu, May 06, 2004 at 09:36:31PM +1000, Bruce Evans wrote: > Panic dumps cannot use either device interrupts or timeouts, not to > mention normal locks, since panics may occur in almost any context; > in particular they may occur with all interrupts masked and important > locks in a bad state. Immediate mode must be used, but it doesn't > seem to be, and a comment says that it is only used for other things: My eye felt on the same code and comments! But if this is indeed the problem, why isn't everyone experiencing this issue? Stated differently, are there problems with using ATA_IMMEDIATE_MODE? Mark
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