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Date:	Tue, 22 Dec 2015 17:39:33 +0100
From:	Guillaume Morin <guillaume@...infr.org>
To:	Jason Baron <jbaron@...mai.com>
Cc:	Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, stable@...r.kernel.org, lwn@....net,
	Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.cz>, Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
	mika.westerberg@...ux.intel.com
Subject: Re: Linux 3.14.58

Jason,

On 22 Dec 11:02, Jason Baron wrote:
> We've noticed livelocks in shrink_dentry_list() very similar to this
> report on stable 3.14.56:
> http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1405.3/00470.html
> 
> It appears that the patches that introduced this issue came into 3.14.51
> in August with the same set of patches mentioned in the referenced
> report. We unfortunately haven't narrowed down a reproducer, so I can't
> bisect the issue, but 3.14.50 did not appear to have the issue.
> 
> Upstream merge commit - 6f6111e4a73d0f6370eb8be4f8e4523210b6a67d (Pull
> vfs dcache livelock fix from Al Viro) brought in a series to address
> this issue. So that may be needed here as well...

FWIW I noticed the same thing.  The commits listed in
http://www.spinics.net/lists/stable/msg111553.html fixed the problem for me.

I assume Greg will pick them up soon...

-- 
Guillaume Morin <guillaume@...infr.org>
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