Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 21 Feb 2009 20:16:17 -0500 | From | Theodore Tso <> | Subject | Re: ext4 locks under 2.6.28.3..6 |
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On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 10:34:43AM +0000, Luciano Miguel Ferreira Rocha wrote: > > I've experienced intermittent locks on my ext4 filesystems under kernel > 2.6.28.3 till 2.6.28.6.
Are you still seeing the problem now that you're using 2.6.28.6? It looks to me to be another case of bug
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12579 http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12610
As I commented in bugid 12610:
>This fix for this has landed in mainline post 2.6.29-rc5, as commit >2acf2c. The deadlock is technically not a regression but it was made >*much* more likely to show up because of commit 31a1266: ("mm: >write_cache_pages cyclic fix, which show up in 2.6.28.1"). > >Commit 3a4c68 in mainline backs up the change made in 31a1266, so you >probably won't see this much after 2.6.28.6 (when 3a4c68 was >backported to 2.6.28.y), but we should get commit 2acf2c pushed to >2.6.28.x and 2.6.27.y to completely solve the deadlock problem.
- Ted
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