Re: [RFC, PATCH 0/102]: xfs: 3.0.x stable kernel update

Mark Tinguely
2012-09-13T18:31:54Z

On 08/23/12 00:01, Dave Chinner wrote:

> For all the XFS developers that have copious amounts of free time
> available, I'd appreciate an eye run over the patch list to see if
> there's any potential bug fixes that I missed or have made glaring
> errors in backporting. Some of the fixes are dependent on cleanups I
> haven't included, so some of the patches are a bit different to what
> is in mainline (e.g. anything that touches setattr). Most important
> to look at is probably the inode i_size changes and the logging of
> all metadata changes.

I think Brian Foster's log hang patch would be a good candidate:
xfs: check for stale inode before acquiring iflock on push
http://oss.sgi.com/archives/xfs/2012-06/msg00134.html

This hang can happen in Linux 2.6.x version of XFS.

Thanks for the work.

--Mark.