linux-kernel - Re: NFS regression in 2.6.37.1 (current stable)

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Message-ID: <20110311001056.GD22030@rivendell.middle-earth.co.uk>
Date:	Fri, 11 Mar 2011 00:10:56 +0000
From:	Dr Andrew John Hughes <ahughes@...hat.com>
To:	Marc Kleine-Budde <mkl@...gutronix.de>
Cc:	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...nel.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	stable@...nel.org, Trond.Myklebust@...app.com,
	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
Subject: Re: NFS regression in 2.6.37.1 (current stable)

On 20:44 Thu 10 Mar     , Marc Kleine-Budde wrote:
> On 03/10/2011 08:35 PM, Pekka Enberg wrote:
> [...]
> > There's some more discussion here:
> > 
> > https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=357121
> 
> They have identified the 55ea499d60aefa3d03a77fc8590c26b5881faa92 as the
> offending commit, too. Used system is x86_64.
> 

FWIW, that 'they' is me too; I reported it there first, but decided to bring
the discussion to the kernel lists when things didn't seem to be progressing
at the distro level.

> > Greg, Trond, as this is a regression in -stable, I wonder if it's best
> > that we just revert the commit?
> 
> No - that would break arm < armv6 and IIRC parisc.
> 
> Marc
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-- 
Andrew :)

Free Java Software Engineer
Red Hat, Inc. (http://www.redhat.com)

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