Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 24 Aug 2009 07:04:52 -0400 (EDT) | From | Justin Piszcz <> | Subject | Re: Kernel 2.6.30.4 XFS(..?) regression (& with/2.6.31-rc6) |
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On Sun, 23 Aug 2009, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Ok, let's see where errors could happen then. > > There are four theoretical possibilities: > > (a) XFS > (b) loop driver > (c) crypto loop code > (d) block layer > > Or combinations thereof. > > I would take (a) and (d) as more unlikely as they tend to get used much > more and I would have heard more bug reports already. > > The cryptoloop code hasn't changed at all since 2.6.29. > > The loop code howver has a very interesting commit just after 2.6.39: > > commit 68db1961bbf4e16c220ccec4a780e966bc1fece3 > Author: Nikanth Karthikesan <knikanth@suse.de> > Date: Tue Mar 24 12:29:54 2009 +0100 > > loop: support barrier writes > > Can you try reverting this one (it cleanly reverse-applies against > 2.6.30 and current mainline) and see if that makes a difference? >
Hello Christoph,
# patch -p1 -R < ../unpatch.patch patching file drivers/block/loop.c Hunk #1 succeeded at 473 (offset -1 lines). Hunk #2 succeeded at 804 (offset -22 lines). #
Patched, we'll see if the problem recurs.. thanks!
Justin.
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