Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 19 Dec 2007 22:31:12 +1100 | From | David Chinner <> | Subject | Re: Important regression with XFS update for 2.6.24-rc6 |
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On Wed, Dec 19, 2007 at 12:17:30PM +0100, Damien Wyart wrote: > * David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com> [071219 11:45]: > > Can someone pass me a brown paper bag, please? > > My first impression on this bug was not so wrong, after all ;-) > > > That also explains why we haven't seen it - it requires the user buffer to > > fill on the first entry of a backing buffer and so it is largely dependent > > on the pattern of name lengths, page size and filesystem block size > > aligning just right to trigger the problem. > > I guess I was lucky to trigger it quite easily... > > > Can you test this patch, Damien? > > Works fine, all the bad symptoms have disappeared and strace output is > normal. > > So you can add: > > Tested-by: Damien Wyart <damien.wyart@free.fr>
Thanks for reporting the bug and testing the fix so quickly, Damien. I'll give it some more QA before I push it, though.
Cheers,
Dave. -- Dave Chinner Principal Engineer SGI Australian Software Group
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