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From: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
To: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Allison Henderson <achender@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Yongqiang Yang <xiaoqiangnk@gmail.com>,
	"Ted Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>, Curt Wohlgemuth <curtw@google.com>,
	Surbhi Palande <csurbhi@gmail.com>, Rafael Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>,
	linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Bug with "fix partial page writes" [3.2-rc regression]
Date: Fri, 9 Dec 2011 13:33:44 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111209133343.GA434@shadowen.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20111208181235.GE2686@shadowen.org>

On Thu, Dec 08, 2011 at 06:12:35PM +0000, Andy Whitcroft wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 08, 2011 at 09:39:55AM -0800, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> 
> [...]
> > > [PATCH 1/2] ext4: let mpage_submit_io works well when blocksize < pagesize
> > > [PATCH 2/2] ext4: let ext4_discard_partial_buffers handle pages without
> > > 
> > > [PATCH 1/2] ext4: remove a wrong BUG_ON in ext4_ext_convert_to_initialized
> > > [PATCH 2/2] ext4: let ext4_bio_write_page handle EOF correctly
> [...]
> > Only once, before the fixes, did I ever see an unexplained EINVAL
> > (from cp), like Andy reports: I'm very hopeful his case is fixed too.
> 
> Yes I have reverted my fix and applied all four of these patches (above).
> I have just completed a 100 iteration run of my test case without failure.
> This would typically fail in the first iteration 90% of the time and
> never survived more than two iterations.
> 
> I am comfortable saying they resolve my issue.

Are we likely to see these fixes in a 3.2-rcN or will they be going to
stable?

-apw

  reply	other threads:[~2011-12-09 13:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <CAO81RMa4uRsOsaK4G78EDvOenJpEdTp4y+rtkiDxaK9cASbMtA@mail.gmail.com>
2011-11-20 20:59 ` Bug with "fix partial page writes" Hugh Dickins
2011-11-21  1:59   ` Yongqiang Yang
2011-11-21 17:38     ` Allison Henderson
2011-11-22  1:44       ` Yongqiang Yang
2011-11-21 16:56   ` Ted Ts'o
2011-11-21 22:04     ` Hugh Dickins
2011-12-05 23:38       ` Bug with "fix partial page writes" [3.2-rc regression] Hugh Dickins
2011-12-06  1:40         ` Allison Henderson
2011-12-06  3:08           ` Yongqiang Yang
2011-12-06  3:20             ` Yongqiang Yang
2011-12-06  3:33             ` Tao Ma
2011-12-06  3:44               ` Yongqiang Yang
2011-12-06  4:05                 ` Allison Henderson
2011-12-06  7:57                   ` Yongqiang Yang
2011-12-06  8:55           ` Hugh Dickins
2011-12-06  9:32             ` Yongqiang Yang
2011-12-06 22:31               ` Hugh Dickins
2011-12-06 21:15             ` Allison Henderson
2011-12-06 22:47               ` Hugh Dickins
2011-12-07  8:28               ` Yongqiang Yang
2011-12-07 17:04                 ` Allison Henderson
2011-12-08  5:10                   ` Allison Henderson
2011-12-08 17:39                     ` Hugh Dickins
2011-12-08 18:12                       ` Andy Whitcroft
2011-12-09 13:33                         ` Andy Whitcroft [this message]
2011-12-09 13:44                           ` Yongqiang Yang
2011-12-09 16:37                             ` Allison Henderson
2011-12-14  4:12                       ` Ted Ts'o
2011-12-14 18:07                         ` Hugh Dickins

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