On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 11:15:15AM +0200, Miklos Szeredi wrote: > On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 07:56:13PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 7:31 PM, Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > > OK, aggregate diff follows, more readable splitup (3 commits) attached. > > > It seems to survive beating here; testing, review and comments are > > > welcome. > > > > Miklos, did you have some particular load that triggered this, or was > > it just some reports? It would be really good to get this patch some > > stress-testing. > > > > I like how the patch removes more lines than it adds, but apart from > > that it's hard to read the patch (even the split-out ones) and say > > anything more about it. I think this needs a *lot* of testing. > > IBM is triggering this with the host01 test from the LTP suite. I haven't yet > tried to reproduce it. Could you repost their report? So far I hadn't managed to get actual list corruption on mainline kernel - it definitely is possible, but on all testcases so far the race window is too narrow. So if they have a reproducer that doesn't take an insane amount of time, I'd really like to see it... -- 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
