Johannes Hirte <johannes.hirte@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Convert pipes to use head and tail pointers for the buffer ring rather than > > pointer and length as the latter requires two atomic ops to update (or a > > combined op) whereas the former only requires one. > > This change breaks firefox on my system. I've noticed that some pages > doesn't load correctly anymore (e.g. facebook, spiegel.de). The pages > start loading and than stop. Looks like firefox is waiting for some > dynamic loading content. I've bisected to this commit, but can't revert > because of conflicts. There are a number of patches committed to upstream in the last couple of days that might fix your problem. See: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/log/ and look for: pipe: Fix iteration end check in fuse_dev_splice_write() pipe: fix incorrect caching of pipe state over pipe_wait() pipe: Fix missing mask update after pipe_wait() pipe: Remove assertion from pipe_poll() David
