On Tue, 22 Dec 2015 16:17:25 -0800 Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > We *just* fixed this. It was pretty subtle, and the debugging went on > for several days. But the fixed got applied to the block tree earlier > today, and I just pulled it only 15 minutes ago and pushed it out just > now. Just my luck. I've spent probably 5 days or more on this thinking it was a hardware issue. :-/ > > So check current -git, it should work for you. > > (And if you care about the particular fix: it's commit 23688bf4f830: > "block: ensure to split after potentially bouncing a bio"). Thanks, I do care. I'll be backporting this commit to the kernel I test for my own code. > > And yes, the way to trigger it seems to be to run a 32-bit kernel and have PAE. Yep, that's exactly the environment that I saw this in. -- Steve -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-block" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
