Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 18 Aug 2015 07:33:08 +0200 | From | Damien Wyart <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH block/for-linus] writeback: fix syncing of I_DIRTY_TIME inodes |
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> > I had an unstable system when running latest Linus tree with Tejun's > > patch applied on top. Nothing fishy in the logs after rebooting without > > the patch, but remote access with ssh when patch applied did not work > > (as if /home partition could not be read). This system has / as ext4 and > > other partitions (including /home) as XFS. Trying to login on tty > > instead of X resulted in hang of X. I could reboot with sysrq, but can't > > do further tests at the moment.
> > Back to same tree without the patch resulted in normal system. > > So just a heads up the patch doesn't seem OK in its current state.
Hi Tejun,
> Have you been able to reproduce the failure? That sounds like an > unlikely failure mode for the patch.
Unfortunately (as it would be nice to understand what happened), no. I reapplied the patch on top of rc7 and could not reproduce the unstability after several reboots.
I will continue running with the patch and report if anything strange appears again...
-- Damien
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