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To: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
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Subject: Re: 2.6.34 nfs fsync() deadlock
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On 31 May 2010, Trond Myklebust said:
> Can you see if the following 2 attached patches (already sent to
> stable@kernel.org) suffice to fix the hang?

It's hard to be absolutely certain (it only fails about a tenth of the
time with this testcase), but it seems to fix it (I've run a hundred or
so tests and it's still going).