On Sat, 1 Aug 2015, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > Well, I'd not be against continuing cleanups for 4.3... Well, as long > as we can make sure 4.2 is solid first, of course. I'd still like to > have Hugh verify that the current -git tree works for his load, but > obviously that wasn't easily reproducible, so that will presumably > take a few days. Dominique seems to at least not see it any more with > that patch. I've had Al's patch under load since this morning, and it's going fine. But I've not actually managed to reproduce the issue for several days now, however bogus a "fix" I've been testing. So certainly don't wait to hear from me: but of course I'll keep on with the loads, and shout if it does go wrong again. (I don't actually understand why the clearing of DCACHE_ENTRY_TYPE in dentry_iput() is not of continuing concern; but don't worry, there's plenty I don't understand - so long as you're both satisfied that it's not a concern, no need to persuade me.) Do we have any idea why a bug introduced in v3.13 should only now stand out, both for Dominique and for me? Has the RCU lookup somehow become much more effective recently? (I don't think symlinks were a big deal for either of us, though the kernel build does use some). Hugh -- 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
