linux-kernel - Re: 3.14 stable regression don't remove from shrink list in select

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Date:	Mon, 25 Jan 2016 18:09:15 +0100
From:	Guillaume Morin <guillaume@...infr.org>
To:	Jason Baron <jbaron@...mai.com>
Cc:	Shawn Bohrer <shawn.bohrer@...il.com>, viro@...iv.linux.org.uk,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
	nab@...ux-iscsi.org, gregkh@...uxfoundation.org,
	Guillaume Morin <guillaume@...infr.org>
Subject: Re: 3.14 stable regression don't remove from shrink list in
 select_collect()

On 25 Jan 11:25, Jason Baron wrote:
>
> On 01/25/2016 11:05 AM, Shawn Bohrer wrote:
> > I recently updated some machines to 3.14.58 and they reliably get soft
> > lockups.  Sometimes the soft lockup recovers and some times it does
> > not.  I've bisected this on the 3.14 stable branch and arrived at:
> > 
> > c214cb82cdc744225d85899fc138251527f75fff don't remove from shrink
> > list in select_collect()
> > 
> > Reverting this commit plus adding back dentry_lru_del() which was
> > removed later on top of 3.14.58 resolves the issue for me.  I've
> > included a patch at the bottom with the revert.
> 
> I ran into this too on 3.14. You can revert these patches as you've done
> or backport the upstream fixes mentioned here:
> 
> http://www.spinics.net/lists/stable/msg111544.html

I actually messed up the commit ids in that message, the fixed list is
here:
http://www.spinics.net/lists/stable/msg111553.html

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