Jens, did you come up with a better alternative? We have another bug which is causing many hung task reports. I do want to make progress rather than stall for another three month. On 2018/07/11 23:29, Tetsuo Handa wrote: > Since syzbot restarted testing linux-next.git , it is a good chance > to test this patch for unexpected regressions (until you come up with > a good alternative). > > On 2018/06/26 23:34, Tetsuo Handa wrote: >> Did you get any idea? >> >> On 2018/06/05 3:13, Jens Axboe wrote: >>> On 6/4/18 5:19 AM, Tetsuo Handa wrote: >>>> This problem was already ignored for 8 months. Unless we boost priority, >>>> this problem will be ignored for years. Jens, can we test this patch? >>> >>> Sorry, it's just that I _really_ hate this patch. We're making up >>> a weird locking primitive that tracks the process, with a weird >>> unlock helper that only unlocks if it's the process that is >>> holding the mutex. >>> >>> I'll try and think about this a bit, it would be nice if we had >>> a better alternative than the above. >>>
