On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 11:57:39AM -0700, Ravikiran G Thirumalai wrote: > On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 06:38:47PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > >On Wed, 15 Apr 2009 10:25:07 +0200 Nick Piggin <npiggin@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > > >> - Trond for NFS (http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12913). > > > >I wonder which kernel version(s) we should put this in. > > > >Going BUG isn't nice, but that report is against 2.6.27. Is the BUG > >super-rare, or did we avoid it via other means, or what? > > > > Jumping in late in after being bit by this bug many times > over with 2.6.27. The bug (http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12913) > is not rare with the right workload at all. Good data point, thanks. > I can easily make it happen on smp machines, when multiple > processes are writing to the same NFS mounted file system. AFAICT this > needs to be back ported to 27 stable and 29 stable as well. > > Nick, are there 27 based patches already available someplace? > Obviously, I have verified these patches + Trond's patch -- > http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/4/25/64 fixes the issue with 2.6.30-rc3 I haven't got any prepared, but they should be a pretty trivial backport, provided we also backport c2ec175c39f62949438354f603f4aa170846aabb (which is probably a good idea anyway). However I will probably wait for a bit, given that the patch isn't upstream yet. -- 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
