> We found suspicious-looking code in generic_file_splice_read() back in > February. See http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/2/29/443. I suspect that patch > (if it works) will address the truncate lockup as well - it zaps the loop > entirely. > > Unfortunately Allard never got back to us (probably because he's running > 2.6.24 which has a quite different generic_file_splice_read()) and the > patch didn't get anywhere. > > Here it is again. > > It needs a changelog. > > Nobody has tested this at all, to my knowledge. Patch looks sane, and fixes the fsx-linux/NFS/fuse lockup, as expected. Thanks, Miklos -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
