Re: [PATCH 2/4] xfs: Introduce writeback context for writepages

Dave Chinner
2016-02-08T20:21:30Z

On Sun, Feb 07, 2016 at 11:54:03PM -0800, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 07, 2016 at 11:36:31PM -0800, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > FYI, I recently started testing this series again after a trivial
> > rebase to 4.5-rc2, and this patch seems to cause reproducible failures
> > of generic/311 (fsync tester)
>
> And by coincidence you posted a new version the night before I posted
> this mail. It still shows that same failure.

What is your test config? The only failures I've had recently of
generic/311 were caused by a bug in the fsync-tester application.
This was fixed by commit 9165a84 ("fsync-tester: reopen files with
correct flags") that was pushed out in the fstests update I did
yesterday.

Cheers,

Dave.
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Dave Chinner
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