linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH 04/10] pipe: Use head and tail pointers for the ring, not cursor and length [ver #2]

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Date:   Fri, 06 Dec 2019 22:15:27 +0000
From:   David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
To:     Johannes Hirte <johannes.hirte@...enkhaos.de>
Cc:     dhowells@...hat.com, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org,
        Rasmus Villemoes <linux@...musvillemoes.dk>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        nicolas.dichtel@...nd.com, raven@...maw.net,
        Christian Brauner <christian@...uner.io>,
        keyrings@...r.kernel.org, linux-usb@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-block@...r.kernel.org, linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-api@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 04/10] pipe: Use head and tail pointers for the ring, not cursor and length [ver #2]

Johannes Hirte <johannes.hirte@...enkhaos.de> wrote:

> > Convert pipes to use head and tail pointers for the buffer ring rather than
> > pointer and length as the latter requires two atomic ops to update (or a
> > combined op) whereas the former only requires one.
> 
> This change breaks firefox on my system. I've noticed that some pages
> doesn't load correctly anymore (e.g. facebook, spiegel.de). The pages
> start loading and than stop. Looks like firefox is waiting for some
> dynamic loading content. I've bisected to this commit, but can't revert
> because of conflicts.

There are a number of patches committed to upstream in the last couple of days
that might fix your problem.  See:

	https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/log/

and look for:

	pipe: Fix iteration end check in fuse_dev_splice_write()
	pipe: fix incorrect caching of pipe state over pipe_wait()
	pipe: Fix missing mask update after pipe_wait()
	pipe: Remove assertion from pipe_poll()

David