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From: Jason Baron <jbaron@akamai.com>
To: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>, guillaume@morinfr.org
Cc: 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 14:30:18 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5679A4CA.6030207@akamai.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20151222163933.GA20860@bender.morinfr.org>



On 12/22/2015 11:39 AM, Guillaume Morin wrote:
> 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...
> 

Thanks for the info!

-Jason

      reply	other threads:[~2015-12-22 19:30 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
2015-12-22 19:30     ` Jason Baron [this message]

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