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Message-ID: <20151222163933.GA20860@bender.morinfr.org> 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> -- 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/
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