linux-kernel - Re: [nfsd4] potentially hardware breaking regression in 4.14-rc and 4.13.11

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Date:   Thu, 9 Nov 2017 11:42:58 -0800
From:   Patrick McLean <chutzpah@...too.org>
To:     Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>
Cc:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Bruce Fields <bfields@...hat.com>,
        "Darrick J. Wong" <darrick.wong@...cle.com>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux NFS Mailing List <linux-nfs@...r.kernel.org>,
        stable <stable@...r.kernel.org>,
        Thorsten Leemhuis <regressions@...mhuis.info>
Subject: Re: [nfsd4] potentially hardware breaking regression in 4.14-rc and
 4.13.11



On 2017-11-09 11:38 AM, Al Viro wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 09, 2017 at 11:34:19AM -0800, Patrick McLean wrote:
> 
>>> In particular, there are *no* nfsd changes in that 4.13.8..4.13.11
>>> range. There is a bunch of xfs changes, though. What's the underlying
>>> filesystem that you are exporting?
>>
>> It's an ext4 filesystem.
> 
> Had there been toolchain changes around the same period?
> 
No changes, both the working and broken kernels were built with
distro-provided gcc 5.4.0 and binutils 2.28.1.