Re: NFS write OOPS with 2.6.29.2

[Trond Myklebust]

On Sat, 2009-05-09 at 19:16 +0000, Holger Kiehl wrote:
> On Mon, 4 May 2009, Andrew Morton wrote:
> 
> >
> > (cc linux-nfs)
> >
> > On Sun, 3 May 2009 16:03:38 +0000 (GMT) Holger Kiehl <Holger.Kiehl@xxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >> Hello
> >>
> >> With plain kernel 2.6.29.2 I get the following OOPS (several of them) when
> >> writing lots of small files on the client system:
> >>
> >>     May  3 18:48:34 obelix kernel: ------------[ cut here ]------------
> >>     May  3 18:48:34 obelix kernel: kernel BUG at fs/nfs/write.c:252!
> >
> > I think this is a well-know bug, and fixes should be available in 2.6.29.3?
> >
> Thanks for this information. I just tried 2.6.29.3 and it still oopses.
> Are there any patches I can try?

The attached backports against 2.6.29 are untested, but they are known
to compile at least. Could you give them a try?

Cheers
  Trond

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