linux-kernel - Re: dcache shrink list corruption?

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Message-ID: <20140430091515.GB3113@tucsk.piliscsaba.szeredi.hu>
Date:	Wed, 30 Apr 2014 11:15:15 +0200
From:	Miklos Szeredi <miklos@...redi.hu>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
	Dave Chinner <david@...morbit.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: dcache shrink list corruption?

On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 07:56:13PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 7:31 PM, Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk> wrote:
> >
> > OK, aggregate diff follows, more readable splitup (3 commits) attached.
> > It seems to survive beating here; testing, review and comments are
> > welcome.
> 
> Miklos, did you have some particular load that triggered this, or was
> it just some reports? It would be really good to get this patch some
> stress-testing.
> 
> I like how the patch removes more lines than it adds, but apart from
> that it's hard to read the patch (even the split-out ones) and say
> anything more about it. I think this needs a *lot* of testing.

IBM is triggering this with the host01 test from the LTP suite.  I haven't yet
tried to reproduce it.

Thanks,
Miklos
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