From: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
To: linux-mm@kvack.org
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>,
"chuck.lever" <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC] Lost wakeups from lock_page_killable()
Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 16:55:31 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1231970131.8269.52.camel@think.oraclecorp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1231964632.8269.47.camel@think.oraclecorp.com>
On Wed, 2009-01-14 at 15:23 -0500, Chris Mason wrote:
> The patch below is entirely untested but may do a better job of
> explaining what I think the bug is. I'm hoping I can trigger it locally
> with a few dd commands mixed with a lot of kill commands.
>
I've tried many variations but haven't hit it locally yet. Hopefully
testers at oracle can confirm the patch fixes things for them, but the
runs take about a day.
-chris
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-01-14 21:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-01-14 20:23 [PATCH RFC] Lost wakeups from lock_page_killable() Chris Mason
2009-01-14 21:55 ` Chris Mason [this message]
2009-01-14 22:30 ` Matthew Wilcox
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