From: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>,
Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>, Chuck Lever <cel@citi.umich.edu>,
Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
stable@kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC v7] wait: prevent exclusive waiter starvation
Date: Mon, 02 Feb 2009 10:47:47 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1233589667.18113.24.camel@think.oraclecorp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1233239675.10354.18.camel@think.oraclecorp.com>
On Thu, 2009-01-29 at 09:34 -0500, Chris Mason wrote:
> > > > So I think we're saying that
> > > > lock_page_killable-avoid-lost-wakeups.patch actually did fix the bug?
> > >
> > > I think yes,
> > >
>
> Our test case that was able to reliably trigger the bug was fixed by
> lock_page_killable-avoid-lost-wakeups.patch.
>
> I'll ask them to test v7 as well. The run takes about a day, so
> confirmation will take a bit.
v7 went through a total of 5 runs and passed all of them. Unpatched we
would fail after one run, so I think this does fix it.
-chris
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Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <20090117215110.GA3300@redhat.com>
2009-01-18 1:38 ` [PATCH v3] wait: prevent waiter starvation in __wait_on_bit_lock Johannes Weiner
2009-01-18 2:32 ` Oleg Nesterov
2009-01-20 20:31 ` Johannes Weiner
2009-01-21 14:36 ` Oleg Nesterov
2009-01-21 21:38 ` [RFC v4] " Johannes Weiner
2009-01-22 20:25 ` Oleg Nesterov
2009-01-23 0:26 ` Dmitry Adamushko
2009-01-23 0:47 ` Oleg Nesterov
2009-01-23 10:07 ` Dmitry Adamushko
2009-01-23 11:05 ` Oleg Nesterov
2009-01-23 12:36 ` Dmitry Adamushko
2009-01-23 9:59 ` Johannes Weiner
2009-01-23 11:35 ` Oleg Nesterov
2009-01-23 13:30 ` Oleg Nesterov
2009-01-26 21:59 ` [RFC v5] wait: prevent exclusive waiter starvation Johannes Weiner
2009-01-27 3:23 ` Oleg Nesterov
2009-01-27 19:34 ` [RFC v6] " Johannes Weiner
2009-01-27 20:05 ` Oleg Nesterov
2009-01-27 22:31 ` Johannes Weiner
2009-01-28 9:14 ` [RFC v7] " Johannes Weiner
2009-01-29 4:42 ` Oleg Nesterov
2009-01-29 7:37 ` Andrew Morton
2009-01-29 8:31 ` Oleg Nesterov
2009-01-29 9:11 ` Andrew Morton
2009-01-29 14:34 ` Chris Mason
2009-02-02 15:47 ` Chris Mason [this message]
2009-01-23 19:24 ` [RFC v4] wait: prevent waiter starvation in __wait_on_bit_lock Johannes Weiner
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