linux-kernel - Re: Regression with dataloss: Reiserfs deadlock in 2.6.36 and 2.6.37, know working 2.6.33

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Message-ID: <AANLkTi=wkhYjy9D-GpgjLvg6zK88uZ8FkBb5fM6Y1-xd@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Wed, 23 Feb 2011 11:15:38 +0100
From:	Bastien ROUCARIES <roucaries.bastien@...il.com>
To:	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>
Cc:	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linus@...ux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: Regression with dataloss: Reiserfs deadlock in 2.6.36 and 2.6.37,
 know working 2.6.33

On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 5:55 PM, Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 05:22:21PM +0100, Bastien ROUCARIES wrote:
>> Le dimanche 30 janvier 2011 01:08:29, Bastien ROUCARIES a écrit :
>> > Le jeudi 23 décembre 2010 04:42:33, Frederic Weisbecker a écrit :
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> Dear Andrew,
>>
>> Since three month I suffer fo regular dataloss in reiserfs kernel. I have posted all the detail  on #29162 under bugzilla.
>>
>> This bug freeze my notebook every hour between 6 hours. using git pull and compiling kernel seems to exercice this bugs.
>>
>> Frederic is really busy by academic millestones and I really thank him for his previous help, do you know somebody willing to
>> help?
>>
>> I could test some patch if needed.
>>
>> Thank you
>>
>> Bastien
>
> Note, in the beginning of march, I'll have time to handle that again, in case nobody else shows
> up until then.
>
I Should add that some unrelated file but opened file are
overwritten.. For instance an xml file opened by akregator was
overwritten by a perl file opened under emacs during the crash...

This bug seems pretty serious and I have no idea to explain this behavior...

Bastien
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