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From: Kamal Mostafa <kamal@canonical.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/19] Fix filesystem freezing deadlocks
Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2012 13:22:44 -0700
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On Mon, 2012-03-05 at 17:00 +0100, Jan Kara wrote:
> Hallelujah,
>=20
>   after a couple of weeks and several rewrites, here comes the third iter=
ation
> of my patches to improve filesystem freezing.  [...]

We've been testing this patch set at Canonical on the multipath failover
SAN configuration where we originally encountered the freeze deadlock.
We are happy to report that it does appear to fix the problem.  Thanks
Jan!

Please add the following endorsements for these patches (those actually
exercised by our test case):  01, 02, 03, 06, 07, 08, 09, 10, 14, 18, 19

BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/897421
Tested-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal@canonical.com>
Tested-by: Peter M. Petrakis <peter.petrakis@canonical.com>
Tested-by: Dann Frazier <dann.frazier@canonical.com>
Tested-by: Massimo Morana <massimo.morana@canonical.com>

 -Kamal


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