From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Kent Overstreet Subject: Re: next-20130117 - kernel BUG with aio Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2013 13:39:58 -0800 Message-ID: <20130124213958.GJ26407@google.com> References: <3544.1358774694@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> <2553.1358890098@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> <13450.1359048141@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> <20130124211850.GH26407@google.com> <20130124132759.c892fb4c.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu, Hillf Danton , Benjamin LaHaise , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-aio@kvack.org, zab@zabbo.net, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org To: Andrew Morton Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20130124132759.c892fb4c.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Sender: owner-linux-aio@kvack.org List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 01:27:59PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Thu, 24 Jan 2013 13:18:50 -0800 > Kent Overstreet wrote: > > > So, Andrew - that "smoosh struct kiocb" patch should just be dropped, > > even if I fixed that issue clearly the idea is a lot less safe than I > > thought. I've got patches for the other stuff I'm going to mail out > > momentarily. > > Dropped. Do you expect that this will fix everything? No, I didn't see that bug until after I'd fixed the other three, but as far as I can tell everything's fixed with the patches I'm about to mail out - my test VM has been running for the past two days without errors, it's kill -9'ing a process that's got iocbs in flight to a loopback device every two seconds. > Please cc linux-fsdevel on the aio stuff - I'm seeing some AIO things > over there which aren't cc'ed to lkml or linux-aio. Will do > Please also take a look at Jan's recent > http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-fsdevel/msg61738.html and have a > think about how this plays with your patchset. Oh fun, I've chased a bug or two in that ext4 code, that stuff's scary... I'm sure it'll take me a bit to wrap my head around what's going on there but I'm looking at it now. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-aio' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux AIO, see: http://www.kvack.org/aio/ Don't email: aart@kvack.org