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SubjectRe: kernel BUG at fs/ext/super.c:428
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 08:29:37PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > 38d47c1b7075bd7ec3881141bb3629da58f88dab is first bad commit
> > commit 38d47c1b7075bd7ec3881141bb3629da58f88dab
> > Author: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
> > Date: Fri Sep 26 19:32:20 2008 +0200
> >
> > futex: rely on get_user_pages() for shared futexes
> >
> > On the way of getting rid of the mmap_sem requirement for shared futexes,
> > start by relying on get_user_pages().
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
> > Acked-by: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
> > Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
> >
> However does a futex change make ext3 crap its pants?

I agree, this doesn't make much sense. I've looked at the patch, and
I don't see how this would cause an ext3 orphaned-inode list handling
problem

Are you sure the bisect was done correctly? Have you tried reverting
that one commit, or otherwise conclusively shown that a kernel with
this commit fails, and one without this commit works just fine?

- Ted


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