From: Guillaume Morin <guillaume@morinfr.org>
To: Jason Baron <jbaron@akamai.com>
Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
torvalds@linux-foundation.org, stable@vger.kernel.org,
lwn@lwn.net, Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>,
Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
mika.westerberg@linux.intel.com
Subject: Re: Linux 3.14.58
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2015 17:39:33 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20151222163933.GA20860@bender.morinfr.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <56797413.3090904@akamai.com>
Jason,
On 22 Dec 11:02, Jason Baron wrote:
> We've noticed livelocks in shrink_dentry_list() very similar to this
> report on stable 3.14.56:
> http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1405.3/00470.html
>
> It appears that the patches that introduced this issue came into 3.14.51
> in August with the same set of patches mentioned in the referenced
> report. We unfortunately haven't narrowed down a reproducer, so I can't
> bisect the issue, but 3.14.50 did not appear to have the issue.
>
> Upstream merge commit - 6f6111e4a73d0f6370eb8be4f8e4523210b6a67d (Pull
> vfs dcache livelock fix from Al Viro) brought in a series to address
> this issue. So that may be needed here as well...
FWIW I noticed the same thing. The commits listed in
http://www.spinics.net/lists/stable/msg111553.html fixed the problem for me.
I assume Greg will pick them up soon...
--
Guillaume Morin <guillaume@morinfr.org>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-12-22 16:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-12-09 20:15 Linux 3.14.58 Greg KH
2015-12-09 20:15 ` Greg KH
2015-12-22 16:02 ` Jason Baron
2015-12-22 16:39 ` Guillaume Morin [this message]
2015-12-22 19:30 ` Jason Baron
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