On Fri, 2010-01-15 at 10:26 -0600, James Bottomley wrote: > On Sun, 2010-01-03 at 18:50 -0500, Kyle McMartin wrote: > > On Sun, Jan 03, 2010 at 11:23:25PM +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > > Ryan Niebur reported in <http://bugs.debian.org/561880> that on a > > > PA-RISC system running Linux 2.6.32 the following test case for inotify: > > > > > > > I bet this is because classic RCU is removed, and tree RCU was > > insufficiently tested on crap platforms before the removal. > > > > I'll try to re-add it and we can see if it's an RCU problem or something > > nastier. > > Apparently it's a feature of kernels beyond 2.6.30 (this exact > behaviour). Suspect the bug report is incomplete and the i386 machine > was running 2.6.29 or lower. > > Red Hat has been getting complaints about it so they're looking to > revert to the old 2.6.29 behaviour as well. The actual commit that > caused the behaviour change is > > commit 63c882a05416e18de6fb59f7dd6da48f3bbe8273 > Author: Eric Paris <eparis@xxxxxxxxxx> > Date: Thu May 21 17:02:01 2009 -0400 > > inotify: reimplement inotify using fsnotify Just to close this out, the fix (for all architectures) is now upstream: commit 9e572cc9877ee6c43af60778f6b8d5ba0692d935 Author: Eric Paris <eparis@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri Jan 15 12:12:24 2010 -0500 inotify: do not reuse watch descriptors James -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-parisc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
