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From: Chandan Rajendra <chandan@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, tytso@mit.edu
Subject: Re: [BUG] softlockup observed with 64k block size on ppc64
Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2016 18:49:54 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <17387849.5EiRHCrpou@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20161025081319.GC16260@quack2.suse.cz>

On Tuesday, October 25, 2016 10:13:19 AM Jan Kara wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> On Mon 24-10-16 14:10:02, Chandan Rajendra wrote:
> > The following soft lockup occurs when fstests' ext4/303 test is executed with
> > 64k block size on a ppc64 machine running linux-4.8 kernel.
> 
> Thanks for report! I had a look into the code and I'm not sure why this
> happens. Is this reproducible? Did it happen also with older kernels?

Yes, This issue can be recreated every single time the test is executed. The
bug is present atleast from linux-v4.0 version. I haven't verified if the bug
is present in earlier versions of the kernel.

-- 
chandan


      reply	other threads:[~2016-10-25 13:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-10-24  8:40 [BUG] softlockup observed with 64k block size on ppc64 Chandan Rajendra
2016-10-25  8:13 ` Jan Kara
2016-10-25 13:19   ` Chandan Rajendra [this message]

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