linux-kernel - Re: 4.7.0-rc7 ext4 error in dx

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Message-ID: <20160817200232.cd5ehiwbwbnggddo@sig21.net>
Date:	Wed, 17 Aug 2016 22:02:32 +0200
From:	Johannes Stezenbach <js@...21.net>
To:	"Darrick J. Wong" <darrick.wong@...cle.com>
Cc:	Török Edwin <edwin@...rok.net>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, tytso@....edu,
	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 4.7.0-rc7 ext4 error in dx_probe

On Fri, Aug 05, 2016 at 08:11:36PM +0200, Johannes Stezenbach wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 05, 2016 at 10:02:28AM -0700, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> > 
> > When you're back on 4.7, can you apply this patch[1] to see if it fixes
> > the problem?  I speculate that the new parallel dir lookup code enables
> > multiple threads to be verifying the same directory block buffer at the
> > same time.
> > 
> > [1] https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/fs/ext4/inode.c?id=b47820edd1634dc1208f9212b7ecfb4230610a23
> 
> I added the patch, rebuilt and rebooted.  It will take some time
> before I'll report back since the issue is so hard to reproduce.

FWIW, so far the issue didn't appear again after I applied
the patch to 4.7.0, and I stressed it a bit with repo syncs,
AOSP builds, rsync backups etc.

Johannes