Bug 633864

Summary: block: fix s390 tape block driver crash that occurs when it switches the IO scheduler [rhel-6.0.z]
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Reporter: RHEL Program Management <pm-rhel>
Component: kernelAssignee: Frantisek Hrbata <fhrbata>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Gris Ge <fge>
Severity: urgent Docs Contact:
Priority: urgent    
Version: 6.0CC: bdonahue, borgan, coughlan, cward, dhoward, fge, jpirko, kzhang, msnitzer, plyons, pm-eus, syeghiay
Target Milestone: rcKeywords: OtherQA, ZStream
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Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
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Fixed In Version: kernel-2.6.32-71.3.1.el6 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Previously, the s390 tape block driver crashed whenever it tried to switch the I/O scheduler. With this update, an official in-kernel API (elevator_change()) is used to switch the I/O scheduler safely, thus, the crashes no longer occurs.
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Last Closed: 2010-11-10 19:09:56 UTC Type: ---
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Bug Depends On: 632631    
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Description RHEL Program Management 2010-09-14 14:48:36 UTC
This bug has been copied from bug #632631 and has been proposed
to be backported to 6.0 z-stream (EUS).

Comment 2 Frantisek Hrbata 2010-10-04 07:14:33 UTC
in 2.6.32-71.3.1.el6

Comment 7 Chris Ward 2010-10-20 10:02:41 UTC
Here are a few arches to test 0day erratum; please test and post feedback before Wed 27th

http://people.redhat.com/kzhang/kernel-2.6.32-71.4.1.el6.x86_64.rpm
http://people.redhat.com/kzhang/kernel-2.6.32-71.4.1.el6.ppc64.rpm
http://people.redhat.com/kzhang/kernel-2.6.32-71.4.1.el6.s390x.rpm

Thanks. Let me know if you need additional arches.

Comment 10 errata-xmlrpc 2010-11-10 19:09:56 UTC
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on therefore solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010-0842.html

Comment 11 Martin Prpič 2010-11-11 11:47:21 UTC
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    New Contents:
Previously, the s390 tape block driver crashed whenever it tried to switch the I/O scheduler. With this update, an official in-kernel API (elevator_change()) is used to switch the I/O scheduler safely, thus, the crashes no longer occurs.