On Tue, Sep 05, 2006 at 12:55:04PM +0000, YAMAMOTO Takashi wrote:

>  > I believe that this is not allowed. The strategy routine is
>  > part of the top half of the driver, it operates in process
>  > context.
>  
>  have you read the referred thread?

I have read the thread. It says that the xen driver calls other
drivers from interrupt context and which failed for vnd which
at that time wouldn't queue infinite buffers without waiting.

>  does your "mkfs.ext2" use a block device, rather than a raw device?

It's not mine but it does.

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