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From: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
To: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>,
	Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>,
	Tim LaBerge <tim.laberge@quantum.com>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
	FNST-Wang Chen <wangchen@cn.fujitsu.com>
Subject: Re: Corruption with O_DIRECT and unaligned user buffers
Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2008 21:27:16 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081219202716.GA6383@random.random> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <494B50C9.7080308@cn.fujitsu.com>

Hello,

On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 03:44:09PM +0800, Li Zefan wrote:
> Tim LaBerge, though the program can pass but sometimes hanged. strace log is
> attached, and we'll test it again with LOCKDEP enabled to see if we can get
> some other information.

So my current suggestion on this is to understand why __reclaim_stacks
is not starting with a lll_unlock before the list_for_each runs, I'll
look into this next week if nobody explained it yet ;). Statistically
speaking it's more likely to be the kernel patch to be buggy and this
is likely a faulty theory I know, but it's not impossible that this is
an unrelated bug that was hidden as it required userland
list_del/add/splice to race against the kernel ptep_set_wrprotect
single instruction.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-12-19 20:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-11-14 17:04 Corruption with O_DIRECT and unaligned user buffers Tim LaBerge
2008-11-19  4:25 ` Nick Piggin
2008-11-19  6:52   ` Nick Piggin
2008-11-19 16:58   ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-12-18 15:29     ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-12-19  2:21       ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2008-12-19  5:06         ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2008-12-19  6:34       ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2008-12-20 16:02         ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-12-19  7:19       ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2008-12-19  7:44         ` Li Zefan
2008-12-19  8:45           ` Li Zefan
2008-12-19 20:27           ` Andrea Arcangeli [this message]
2008-12-20 15:55         ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-12-19 11:51       ` Li Zefan
2008-12-19 12:14         ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2008-12-19 12:58         ` Hugh Dickins
2008-12-19 20:34         ` Andrea Arcangeli

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