This series is a backport of all the major bug fixes in the current TOT kernel to the current 3.0.x stable tree. I won't make any secret of this - the fixes and supporting patches have been selected as a result of the issues reported in the current RHEL XFS codebase which currently is 2 commits short of the 3.0 code base. With that said, it doesn't take a brain surgeon to work out the motivations behind this work and eventual destination of the patch set. ;) There's no guarantee I have caught every single bug fix that has been made since 3.0, but I've tried to grab all the bug fix commits as indicated by the commit headers (hence the importance of good one line bug summaries). Over the past couple of weeks of testing and refining, I've had only three significant problems arise from QA and load testing: 1) An unreproducable log space hang 2) An unmount panic due to buffers not being cleaned up before tearing down the perag tree 3) A forced shutdown panic in block_invalidatepage() via xfs_aops_discard_page() It's entirely possible that #1 was due to the CIL space hang we still haven't got to the bottom of, so i'm not not greatly concerned by that. #2 implies I haven't quite backported the shutdown ordering fixes correctly (or I missed one), so I have a bit more work to do there. And for #3 - I've never seen that before and I haven't been able to reproduce it, so I really don't know what potential cause or impact it has. I've been beating on the series with xfstests, dbench, fsmark, postmark, compilebench and a few other load scripts that I've got, and it seems fairly resilient. Hence, it's time to give the series wider testing and review to flush out any remaining issues. For all the folks that run 3.0.x stable kernels, I'd appreciate it if you could give this a whirl on your test systems to see if there are any obvious, glaring problems that show up under your particular workloads. This woul dbe of great benefit to me before I submit the series to the stable kernel gurus - I'd prefer it there's more substantial testing than "i've done what I can" when sending them the series. For all the XFS developers that have copious amounts of free time available, I'd appreciate an eye run over the patch list to see if there's any potential bug fixes that I missed or have made glaring errors in backporting. Some of the fixes are dependent on cleanups I haven't included, so some of the patches are a bit different to what is in mainline (e.g. anything that touches setattr). Most important to look at is probably the inode i_size changes and the logging of all metadata changes. Enjoy! Cheers, Dave. _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs
