linux-ext4 - Re: [stable] [PATCH] jbd/2[stable only]: Use WRITE_SYNC_PLUG in journal_commit

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Message-ID: <20110713021755.GC10750@kroah.com>
Date:	Wed, 13 Jul 2011 04:17:55 +0200
From:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
To:	Tao Ma <tm@....ma>
Cc:	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>,
	Corrado Zoccolo <czoccolo@...il.com>,
	Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@...hat.com>,
	Jens Axboe <jaxboe@...ionio.com>, stable@...nel.org,
	Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [stable] [PATCH] jbd/2[stable only]: Use WRITE_SYNC_PLUG in
 journal_commit_transaction.

On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 10:10:03AM +0800, Tao Ma wrote:
> On 07/12/2011 11:55 PM, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 06:43:51PM +0800, Tao Ma wrote:
> >> This only affects .37 and .38 since Jens' new plug patches are included
> >> in .39 and the bug is removed as a side effect. But I think it is needed
> >> anyway for the stable. And RHEL6 needs this also I guess.
> > 
> > Both the .37 and .38-stable kernel trees are end-of-life and not having
> > any more releases, so there's no tree for these to be applied too,
> > sorry.
> Fine. Since RHEL6 still has this problem(not sure SLES has this problem
> or not), I may add a bug in redhat's bugzilla.

Ok, but neither RHEL6 or SLES11 is based on .37 or .38, so it might not
be relevant for them either.

greg k-h
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