Re: Kernel panics on raw I/O stress test

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Thu, 19 Apr 2001 13:50:36 +0100 (BST)


> When I ran raw I/O SCSI read/write test with 2.4.1 kernel
> on our IA64 8way SMP box, kernel paniced and following
> message was displayed.
>
> Aiee, killing interrupt handler!
>
> (1) Wait in rw_raw_dev() while io_count is positive.

Stephen submitted a chunk of raw i/o fixes which are in recent -ac kernels.
I don't know if Linus has merged them offhand. But 2.4.1 raw is definitely
not watertight

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