From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tao Ma Subject: Re: [stable] [PATCH] jbd/2[stable only]: Use WRITE_SYNC_PLUG in journal_commit_transaction. Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2011 10:21:11 +0800 Message-ID: <4E1D0117.2030707@tao.ma> References: <1310467431-23108-1-git-send-email-tm@tao.ma> <20110712155517.GA6696@kroah.com> <4E1CFE7B.9000305@tao.ma> <20110713021755.GC10750@kroah.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, Jan Kara , Corrado Zoccolo , Jeff Moyer , Jens Axboe , stable@kernel.org, Vivek Goyal To: Greg KH Return-path: Received: from oproxy3-pub.bluehost.com ([69.89.21.8]:55682 "HELO oproxy3-pub.bluehost.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1756992Ab1GMCVT (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Jul 2011 22:21:19 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20110713021755.GC10750@kroah.com> Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 07/13/2011 10:17 AM, Greg KH wrote: > On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 10:10:03AM +0800, Tao Ma wrote: >> On 07/12/2011 11:55 PM, Greg KH wrote: >>> On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 06:43:51PM +0800, Tao Ma wrote: >>>> This only affects .37 and .38 since Jens' new plug patches are included >>>> in .39 and the bug is removed as a side effect. But I think it is needed >>>> anyway for the stable. And RHEL6 needs this also I guess. >>> >>> Both the .37 and .38-stable kernel trees are end-of-life and not having >>> any more releases, so there's no tree for these to be applied too, >>> sorry. >> Fine. Since RHEL6 still has this problem(not sure SLES has this problem >> or not), I may add a bug in redhat's bugzilla. > > Ok, but neither RHEL6 or SLES11 is based on .37 or .38, so it might not > be relevant for them either. Thanks for the reminder. Actually I used RHEL6.1 and it seems that Corrado's patch 749ef9f8423 is backported by redhat's guy already since it does have the problem I mentioned. Thanks Tao