Re: Linux 3.14.58

[Jason Baron]

On 12/22/2015 11:39 AM, Guillaume Morin wrote:
> Jason,
> 
> On 22 Dec 11:02, Jason Baron wrote:
>> We've noticed livelocks in shrink_dentry_list() very similar to this
>> report on stable 3.14.56:
>> http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1405.3/00470.html
>>
>> It appears that the patches that introduced this issue came into 3.14.51
>> in August with the same set of patches mentioned in the referenced
>> report. We unfortunately haven't narrowed down a reproducer, so I can't
>> bisect the issue, but 3.14.50 did not appear to have the issue.
>>
>> Upstream merge commit - 6f6111e4a73d0f6370eb8be4f8e4523210b6a67d (Pull
>> vfs dcache livelock fix from Al Viro) brought in a series to address
>> this issue. So that may be needed here as well...
> 
> FWIW I noticed the same thing.  The commits listed in
> http://www.spinics.net/lists/stable/msg111553.html fixed the problem for me.
> 
> I assume Greg will pick them up soon...
> 

Thanks for the info!

-Jason
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/