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SubjectRe: livelock avoidance in sget()
On Sat, Jul 20, 2013 at 01:30:13PM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> Hi Al,
>
> Is the patch below something that we need to worry about for 3.10 and
> older kernels? Or does the recent changes to the vfs in 3.11-rc1 make
> it so that this can't be hit in older kernels?

Needed since 2.6.35 or so (earlier ones have a lot more problems in that
area and might need a similar fix if they got backports of mainline
fixes).


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