Re: [PATCH 6.7 438/641] md: bypass block throttle for superblock update

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On Wed, Jan 24, 2024 at 4:34 PM Dan Moulding <dan@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > For now, I'm going to keep both commits in the stable trees, as that
> > matches what is in Linus's tree
>
> Please consider reverting bed9e27baf52 in both Linus' tree and the
> stable trees. That would keep them in sync while keeping this new
> regression out of the kernel.
>
> > as this seems to be hard to reproduce
> > and I haven't seen any other reports of issues.
>
> The change that caused the regression itself purports to fix a
> two-year old regression. But since that alleged regression has been in
> the kernel for two years, seemingly without much (if any) public
> complaint, I'd say that the new regression caused by bed9e27baf52 is
> definitely the easier one to reproduce (I hit it within hours after
> upgrading to 6.7.1).

Agreed. I am thinking about reverting bed9e27baf52.

>
> I've also reproduced this regression in a fresh Fedora 39 VM that I
> just spun up to try to reproduce it in a different environment. I can
> reproduce it both with the vanilla stable v6.6.13 sources as well as
> with the distribution kernel (6.6.13-200-fc39.x86_64). Song, I'm happy
> to provide the details of how I built this VM, or even the VM's
> libvirt XML and disk images, if that would help with your efforts to
> reproduce the problem.

Repro steps in vm setup will be really helpful. I think I just need the
commands that set up the array for now. If that doesn't work, we can
try the disk image.

Thanks,
Song





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