On 12/22/2015 11:39 AM, Guillaume Morin wrote: > Jason, > > On 22 Dec 11:02, Jason Baron wrote: >> We've noticed livelocks in shrink_dentry_list() very similar to this >> report on stable 3.14.56: >> http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1405.3/00470.html >> >> It appears that the patches that introduced this issue came into 3.14.51 >> in August with the same set of patches mentioned in the referenced >> report. We unfortunately haven't narrowed down a reproducer, so I can't >> bisect the issue, but 3.14.50 did not appear to have the issue. >> >> Upstream merge commit - 6f6111e4a73d0f6370eb8be4f8e4523210b6a67d (Pull >> vfs dcache livelock fix from Al Viro) brought in a series to address >> this issue. So that may be needed here as well... > > FWIW I noticed the same thing. The commits listed in > http://www.spinics.net/lists/stable/msg111553.html fixed the problem for me. > > I assume Greg will pick them up soon... > Thanks for the info! -Jason -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html