Re: [PATCH 2/2] mm: Implement writeback livelock avoidance using page tagging

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On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 12:28:58AM +0200, Jan Kara wrote:
>   And from the values in registers the loop seems to have went astray
> because "index" was zero at the point we entered the loop... looking
> around...  Ah, I see, you create files with 16TB size which creates
> radix tree of such height that radix_tree_maxindex(height) == ~0UL and
> if write_cache_pages() passes in ~0UL as end, we can overflow the index.
> Hmm, I haven't realized that is possible.
>   OK, attached is a patch that should fix the issue.

This seems to fix the case for me.

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