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Date:	Thu, 20 Jan 2011 12:18:55 +0530
From:	Gurudas Pai <gurudas.pai@...cle.com>
To:	Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>
CC:	Miklos Szeredi <miklos@...redi.hu>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [BUG] kernel BUG at mm/truncate.c:479! on 2.6.37-rc8

Hi Hugh,

Gurudas Pai wrote:
>>> With 2.6.37-rc8 , run a fio test over nfs, with following jobfile, 
>>> and we
>>> hit kernel bug.
>>
>> Have you tried the same test on earlier releases?
>> I think the bug is old, yet only recently reported.
> I tried with 2.6.36.2 , even there it is panicing.
> 
> 
>> This NFS-triggered kernel BUG at mm/truncate.c:479 sounds very like
>> the FUSE-triggered kernel BUG at mm/truncate.c:475 on 2.6.36.1 for
>> which Miklos posted a patch on 14 December.  Please give his patch
>> (below) a try and let us know if it fixes the issue for you - thanks.
> Issue fixed with the patch, Thanks :)

Is this patch included in mainline ?


>> There's another of these page_mapped truncation BUGs outstanding,
>> that we suspect has a different cause: yours doesn't sound like that
>> one.  I can't explain why three people now in the space of one month
>> should at last hit these ancient bugs!
>>
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> -Guru
> 
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