Re: [PATCH 5.15 000/124] 5.15.36-rc1 review

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2022-04-26T18:38:50Z

On Tue, Apr 26, 2022 at 12:24:24PM -0500, John Donnelly wrote:
> On 4/26/22 12:52 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 26, 2022 at 12:37:21PM -0500, john.p.donnelly@oracle.com wrote:
> > > 76723ed1fb89 2021-12-01 | locking/rwsem: Make handoff bit handling more
> > > consistent
> > >
> > > In Linux 5.15.y.
> >
> > That commit is in 5.15.6, released December 1, 2021. And this just now
> > shows up? How is this related to 5.15.36-rc1?
>
> Hi,
>
> This was briefly discussed in :
>
> Re: [PATCH v5] locking/rwsem: Make handoff bit handling more consistent

Have a lore.kernel.org link? Why not continue it there?

> Additional testing shows the rwsem hang still exists. It takes a 24hr fio
> soak test to show up.
>
> It likely still exists in Linux 5.18.y too. We will be testing that in the
> future as time permits.

Can you test 5.17.y also as there is no 5.18.y yet :)

thanks,

greg k-h