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From: Theodore Tso <tytso@MIT.EDU>
To: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: "Pallipadi, Venkatesh" <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Subject: Re: kernel BUG at fs/ext/super.c:428
Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 16:20:38 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090114212038.GJ6222@mit.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1231961377.14825.51.camel@laptop>

On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 08:29:37PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > 38d47c1b7075bd7ec3881141bb3629da58f88dab is first bad commit
> > commit 38d47c1b7075bd7ec3881141bb3629da58f88dab
> > Author: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
> > Date:   Fri Sep 26 19:32:20 2008 +0200
> > 
> >     futex: rely on get_user_pages() for shared futexes
> >     
> >     On the way of getting rid of the mmap_sem requirement for shared futexes,
> >     start by relying on get_user_pages().
> >     
> >     Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
> >     Acked-by: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
> >     Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
> > 
> However does a futex change make ext3 crap its pants?

I agree, this doesn't make much sense.  I've looked at the patch, and
I don't see how this would cause an ext3 orphaned-inode list handling
problem

Are you sure the bisect was done correctly?  Have you tried reverting
that one commit, or otherwise conclusively shown that a kernel with
this commit fails, and one without this commit works just fine?

     	    	       	   	   	- Ted

  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-01-14 21:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-01-10  0:36 kernel BUG at fs/ext/super.c:428 Pallipadi, Venkatesh
2009-01-14  0:48 ` Andrew Morton
2009-01-14  1:44   ` Theodore Tso
2009-01-14  2:48     ` Arjan van de Ven
2009-01-14  2:48       ` Arjan van de Ven
2009-01-14  4:40       ` Theodore Tso
2009-01-14 19:16         ` Pallipadi, Venkatesh
2009-01-14 19:16           ` Pallipadi, Venkatesh
2009-01-14 19:29           ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-01-14 19:38             ` Pallipadi, Venkatesh
2009-01-14 19:42               ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-01-14 19:48                 ` Pallipadi, Venkatesh
2009-01-14 21:20             ` Theodore Tso [this message]
2009-01-21 20:10               ` Pallipadi, Venkatesh
2009-01-21 20:10                 ` Pallipadi, Venkatesh
2009-01-24  7:36                 ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-01-24  7:36                   ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-01-26 16:39                   ` Darren Hart
2009-01-26 16:39                     ` Darren Hart
2009-01-26 16:46                     ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-01-26 17:12                       ` Darren Hart

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