linux-kernel - Re: processes stuck in llseek

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Date:	Thu, 18 Aug 2011 12:00:27 -0400
From:	Chris Mason <chris.mason@...cle.com>
To:	Mitch Harder <mitch.harder@...ayonlinux.org>
Cc:	Li Zefan <lizf@...fujitsu.com>,
	Dan Merillat <dan.merillat@...il.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	BTRFS Mailing list <linux-btrfs@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: processes stuck in llseek

Excerpts from Mitch Harder's message of 2011-08-18 11:40:17 -0400:
> On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 8:23 PM, Li Zefan <lizf@...fujitsu.com> wrote:
> > Dan Merillat wrote:
> >> On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 8:51 AM, Chris Mason <chris.mason@...cle.com> wrote:
> >>> Excerpts from Dan Merillat's message of 2011-08-15 23:59:50 -0400:
> >>
> >>> Dan Carpenter sent a patch for this, I'll get it queued up for rc3.
> >>
> >> Can you send it?  I'd like to test it to see if it fixes my system.
> >
> > Here it is.
> >
> > http://marc.info/?l=linux-btrfs&m=131176036219732&w=2
> >
> 
> Doesn't this patch rely on Josef's SEEK_HOLE/SEEK_DATA patch set which
> isn't in the kernel yet?
> 
> http://marc.info/?l=linux-btrfs&m=130927580606177&w=2

It does, but the hang was reported on 3.1-rc1, which does have Josef's
code.

-chris
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