Re: [Bug #12610] sync-Regression in 2.6.28.2?

Rafael J. Wysocki
2009-02-22T10:02:09Z

On Saturday 21 February 2009, Theodore Tso wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 09:38:18PM +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12610
> > Subject : sync-Regression in 2.6.28.2?
> > Submitter : Ralf Hildebrandt <Ralf.Hildebrandt-jq1tPX9l7E6ELgA04lAiVw@public.gmane.org>
> > Date : 2009-01-27 9:35 (19 days old)
> > References : http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=123304977706620&w=4
>
> This fix for this has landed in mainline post 2.6.29-rc5, as commit
> 2acf2c. The deadlock is technically not a regression but it was made
> *much* more likely to show up because of commit 31a1266: ("mm:
> write_cache_pages cyclic fix, which show up in 2.6.28.1").
>
> Commit 3a4c68 in mainline backs up the change made in 31a1266, so you
> probably won't see this much after 2.6.28.6 (when 3a4c68 was
> backported to 2.6.28.y), but we should get commit 2acf2c pushed to
> 2.6.28.x and 2.6.27.y to completely solve the deadlock problem.

Thanks for the update.

I'll close the bug since it's fixed in the mainline. Please tell Greg which
patches to put into the -stable kernels.

Thanks,
Rafael

>
> - Ted
>
>

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