On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 11:02:09AM +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > On Saturday 21 February 2009, Theodore Tso wrote: > > On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 09:38:18PM +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > > Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12610 > > > Subject : sync-Regression in 2.6.28.2? > > > Submitter : Ralf Hildebrandt <Ralf.Hildebrandt@xxxxxxxxxx> > > > Date : 2009-01-27 9:35 (19 days old) > > > References : http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=123304977706620&w=4 > > > > This fix for this has landed in mainline post 2.6.29-rc5, as commit > > 2acf2c. The deadlock is technically not a regression but it was made > > *much* more likely to show up because of commit 31a1266: ("mm: > > write_cache_pages cyclic fix, which show up in 2.6.28.1"). > > > > Commit 3a4c68 in mainline backs up the change made in 31a1266, so you > > probably won't see this much after 2.6.28.6 (when 3a4c68 was > > backported to 2.6.28.y), but we should get commit 2acf2c pushed to > > 2.6.28.x and 2.6.27.y to completely solve the deadlock problem. > > Thanks for the update. > > I'll close the bug since it's fixed in the mainline. Please tell Greg which > patches to put into the -stable kernels. Ted, can you forward the needed patches to stable@xxxxxxxxxx, or just tell us to take those git commits directly? thanks, greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kernel-testers" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
