linux-kernel - Re: [regression] Crash in wb_clear_pending() (was: Linux 2.6.35-rc4)

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Message-ID: <20100705164022.GA26995@infradead.org>
Date:	Mon, 5 Jul 2010 12:40:22 -0400
From:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>
Subject: Re: [regression] Crash in wb_clear_pending() (was: Linux 2.6.35-rc4)

We had a thread about it a few days ago.  The following commit from
Jens' 2.6.36 tree needs to go into 2.6.35 to sort the issues with the
fragile wakeup mechanism which only got worse by the patches out:
	
	http://git.kernel.dk/?p=linux-2.6-block.git;a=commitdiff;h=79338d2a78ab78efdc1698f1309766a039addf9d
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