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From: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
To: Peter Klotz <peter.klotz@aon.at>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	stable@kernel.org,
	Linux Memory Management List <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	Roman Kononov <kernel@kononov.ftml.net>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, xfs@oss.sgi.com,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [patch] mm: fix lockless pagecache reordering bug (was Re: BUG: soft lockup - is this XFS problem?)
Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2009 09:43:12 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090106084312.GC16738@wotan.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49631877.3090803@aon.at>

On Tue, Jan 06, 2009 at 09:38:15AM +0100, Peter Klotz wrote:
> >Index: linux-2.6/include/linux/radix-tree.h
> >===================================================================
> >--- linux-2.6.orig/include/linux/radix-tree.h
> >+++ linux-2.6/include/linux/radix-tree.h
> >@@ -136,7 +136,7 @@ do {						 \
> >  */
> > static inline void *radix_tree_deref_slot(void **pslot)
> > {
> >-	void *ret = *pslot;
> >+	void *ret = rcu_dereference(*pslot);
> > 	if (unlikely(radix_tree_is_indirect_ptr(ret)))
> > 		ret = RADIX_TREE_RETRY;
> > 	return ret;
> >
> >
> 
> The patch above fixes my problem. I did two complete test runs that 
> normally fail rather quickly.

OK, thanks for reporting and testing. 

I think this patch is a candidate for -stable too.

Thanks,
Nick

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  reply	other threads:[~2009-01-06  8:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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2009-01-05 16:41               ` [patch] mm: fix lockless pagecache reordering bug (was Re: BUG: soft lockup - is this XFS problem?) Nick Piggin
2009-01-05 17:30                 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-01-05 18:00                   ` Nick Piggin
2009-01-05 18:44                     ` Linus Torvalds
2009-01-05 19:39                       ` Linus Torvalds
2009-01-06 17:17                         ` Paul E. McKenney
2009-01-05 20:12                       ` Paul E. McKenney
2009-01-05 20:39                         ` Linus Torvalds
2009-01-05 21:57                           ` Paul E. McKenney
2009-01-06  2:05                             ` Nick Piggin
2009-01-06  2:23                               ` Paul E. McKenney
2009-01-06  2:29                               ` Linus Torvalds
2009-01-06  8:38                               ` Peter Klotz
2009-01-06  8:43                                 ` Nick Piggin [this message]
2009-01-06 16:16                               ` Roman Kononov
2009-01-05 21:04                         ` [patch] mm: fix lockless pagecache reordering bug (was Peter Zijlstra
2009-01-05 21:58                           ` Paul E. McKenney

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