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Re: [Xen-devel] blktap2 bug:Assertion 'list_empty(&vreq->next)' failed

On Mon, 2010-07-05 at 18:26 -0400, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> On 07/05/2010 02:25 PM, Daniel Stodden wrote:
> > On Thu, 2010-07-01 at 08:55 -0400, tsk wrote:
> >   
> >> Hi, will the patches be added to Xen-4.1?
> >>     
> > About to prepare the next bunch of patches for xen.git.
> >
> > Jeremy, is it okay to pull some of the changes made for 2.6.3x into the
> > xen/dom0/backend/blktap2 topic branch before moving on?
> >
> > I'm mainly talking about this one:
> >
> > >From ab77527f9a63a5c657c6d6a50e70a66adceaa3a0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> > From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2010 17:22:09 -0800
> > Subject: [PATCH] xen/blktap2: make compile
> >
> > and a couple related deltas which came later.
> >
> > Except moving forward to newer blk queue interfaces, they don't make
> > much of a functional difference.
> >
> > Would simplify merging quite a bit.
> >   
> 
> Which kernel version has these interface updates?  Do they predate the
> version the blktap2 branch is rooted on, or do the come later?  If
> they're later, then merge the mainline kernel (ideally a tagged release
> like v2.6.3[12]) into the blktap2 one and cherrypick the "make compile"
> changes on top of the merge (and if they're already there, then just
> cherrypick).

Okay, the HG follower in me didn't quite follow yet the cherry-related
part of that procedure. But altogether it sounds quite promising.

Followup later. Thanks! :)

Daniel


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