On Mon, Nov 02, 2015 at 06:47:29AM +0000, Kweh, Hock Leong wrote: > By looking at your dmesg log, the above print out message seem that > someone has called the flush() after the write(2). In my environment, flush() > only being called in 2 places which are before write(2) and during close(2). > The dmesg log seems that your environment is running write(2) and flush() in > different threads and are parallel. Could you help me to double confirm this and it > would be good if you could told me when the flush() is exactly being called in > your environment. The info really help me on debugging. I don't know what you mean: I simply do cat /bin/ls > /dev/efi_capsule_loader as root in an SMP kvm guest. And it explodes. Nothing special, just this one command. I guess you could try to reproduce it, here's how I start it: qemu-system-x86_64 -enable-kvm -gdb tcp::1234 -cpu Opteron_G5 -m 2048 -hda /home/boris/kvm/debian/sid-x86_64.img -hdb /home/boris/kvm/swap.img -boot menu=off,order=c -localtime -net nic,model=rtl8139 -net user,hostfwd=tcp::1235-:22 -usbdevice tablet -kernel /home/boris/kernel/linux-2.6/arch/x86/boot/bzImage -append "root=/dev/sda1 resume=/dev/sdb1 debug ignore_loglevel log_buf_len=16M earlyprintk=ttyS0,115200 console=ttyS0,115200 console=tty0" -monitor pty -virtfs local,path=/tmp,mount_tag=tmp,security_model=none -serial file:/home/boris/kvm/test-x86_64-1235.log -snapshot -smp 8 HTH. -- Regards/Gruss, Boris. ECO tip #101: Trim your mails when you reply. -- 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