On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 09:36:32AM -0400, Jeff Layton wrote: > On Wed, 25 Jun 2014 15:32:56 +0200 > Jiri Slaby <jslaby@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On 06/20/2014 08:56 PM, Jeff Layton wrote: > > > From: Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx> > > > > > > This is commit a0ef5e19684f0447da9ff0654a12019c484f57ca in mainline. > > > > > > While the commit message below doesn't lay this out, we've subsequently > > > found that there are some cases where an entry that's still in use can > > > be freed prematurely if a particular operation takes a *very* long time > > > (on the order of minutes) and/or the server is very busy and doesn't > > > have a lot of memory dedicated to the DRC. This patch eliminates that > > > possibility, so it's actually more than just a cleanup. > > > > > > The regression crept in in v3.9, and this patch went into mainline in > > > v3.14. Please apply this to any stable kernel between those two > > > mainline releases. > > > > Now applied to 3.12. Thanks. > > > > > > Thank you! It also turns out that we're going to want to pull > 1b19453d1c6abcfa7c312ba6c9f11a277568fc94 from mainline into stable > kernels as well. There's one more possibility for an entry to be freed > while still in use that that patch will fix. > > I'll resend that to stable@vger later today... > > Thanks! > -- > Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > -- > 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 Thanks, I'll queue both patches for the 3.11 kernel. Cheers, -- Luís -- 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