Re: [PATCH linux-2.6.0-test10-mm1] dio-read-race-fix

[Suparna Bhattacharya <suparna@in.ibm.com>]

On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 03:55:44PM -0800, Daniel McNeil wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-12-30 at 22:09, Suparna Bhattacharya wrote:
> 
> > Since the first filemap_write_and_wait call is redundant and somewhat
> > suspect since its called w/o i_sem (I can think of unexpected side effects
> > on parallel filemap_write_and_wait calls), have you thought of disabling that
> > and then trying to see if you can still recreate the problem ? It may
> > not make a difference, but it seems like the right thing to do and could
> > at least simplify some of the debugging.
> > 
> > Regards
> > Suparna
> > 
> 
> 
> Ok, I retried my test without the filemap_write_and_wait() that is not
> protected by i_sem and the test still sees uninitialized data.  I'm
> still running with test10-mm1 + all the patches I sent out before.
> I'm haven't tried 2.6.0-rc*-mm1 yet.  I need to move all my debug code
> over to the latest mm kernel.  I also did not want to change too much
> at same time.

Did you have a chance to try akpm's patch for filemap_fdatawait ? 
(you should be able to apply it to the same kernel that you are running
with, I think)

Regards
Suparna

> 
> Daniel
> 
> 
> 
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Suparna Bhattacharya (suparna@in.ibm.com)
Linux Technology Center
IBM Software Lab, India