Re: processes stuck in llseek

Mitch Harder
2011-08-18T16:53:36Z

On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 11:00 AM, Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com> wrote:
> Excerpts from Mitch Harder's message of 2011-08-18 11:40:17 -0400:
>> On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 8:23 PM, Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> wrote:
>> > Dan Merillat wrote:
>> >> On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 8:51 AM, Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com> wrote:
>> >>> Excerpts from Dan Merillat's message of 2011-08-15 23:59:50 -0400:
>> >>
>> >>> Dan Carpenter sent a patch for this, I'll get it queued up for rc3.
>> >>
>> >> Can you send it?  I'd like to test it to see if it fixes my system.
>> >
>> > Here it is.
>> >
>> > http://marc.info/?l=linux-btrfs&m=131176036219732&w=2
>> >
>>
>> Doesn't this patch rely on Josef's SEEK_HOLE/SEEK_DATA patch set which
>> isn't in the kernel yet?
>>
>> http://marc.info/?l=linux-btrfs&m=130927580606177&w=2
>
> It does, but the hang was reported on 3.1-rc1, which does have Josef's
> code.
>

Thanks.

That gives me some insights regarding the differences between the
'for-linus' and the 'for-linus-merged' branches.