linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL] Btrfs fixes for 6.8-rc2

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Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2024 13:51:09 -0800
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To: Qu Wenruo <wqu@...e.com>
Cc: dsterba@...e.cz, David Sterba <dsterba@...e.com>, linux-btrfs@...r.kernel.org, 
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] Btrfs fixes for 6.8-rc2

On Fri, 26 Jan 2024 at 13:39, Qu Wenruo <wqu@...e.com> wrote:
>
> Oh, I forgot the most obvious problem.
>
> This means the extent buffer is full of garbage.

Allocation lifetime problems?

> What's the page size of the system? 4K or 16K or 64K?

This is a bog-standard x86-64 system. With 32 cores (and 64 threads),
but there's nothing remotely odd about it, except for the fact that
it's running a very recent kernel...

             Linus