lists.openwall.net | lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC | |
Open Source and information security mailing list archives
| ||
|
Date: Fri, 5 Nov 2010 14:41:33 -0700 From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> To: Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz> Cc: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...ozas.de>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@...cle.com>, Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, stable@...nel.org, gregkh@...e.de Subject: Re: Sync writeback still broken On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 2:34 PM, Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz> wrote: > On Fri 05-11-10 22:33:24, Jan Kara wrote: >> I needed one more patch to resolve the issue (attached) which I've just >> posted for review and possible inclusion. I had a similar one long time ago >> but now I'm better able to explain why it works because of tracepoints. >> Yay! ;). With those three patches I'm not able to trigger livelocks (but >> sync takes still 15 minutes because the througput to disk is about 4MB/s - >> no big surprise given the random nature of the load) > PS: And big thanks to you for providing the test case and your > persistence ;) Ok, I'm inclined to just apply these three patches. Can we get a quick ack/tested-by for them? I'm sure there's more work to be done, but let's put this damn thing to rest if it really does fix the problem Jan(E) sees. Comments? Linus -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
Powered by blists - more mailing lists