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From: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
To: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Cc: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>, Arthur Jones <ajones@riverbed.com>,
	"linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org" <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>,
	sct@redhat.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: ext3: slow symlink corruption on umount...
Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2008 20:47:20 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200810312047.20306.nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4909B8D6.7070206@redhat.com>

On Friday 31 October 2008 00:38, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> Theodore Tso wrote:
> > On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 03:36:33PM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> >> Sorry for the silence, this is a nice bug you've found :)
> >>
> >> I'll look into it ...
> >
> > You may want to take a quick look at this thread:
> >
> >     http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/10/28/413
> >
> > 					- Ted
>
> I thought about that, but at least at first glance I don't see how the
> gfp mask change would cause this behavior...?  At least, I don't think
> we're seeing recursion back into the filesystem... but I'll ponder that.

That's definitely a bug which I'll have to fix for 2.6.28, but
I agree it's unlikely to recurse frequently like this (would only
happen under high memory pressure, and only when writeout from
page reclaim happens).


> (Also, Arthur reports seeing this as long ago as 2.6.9...)

OK, well that would confirm it.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-11-03  3:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 48+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20081024183733.GA25797@ajones-laptop.nbttech.com>
2008-10-27 16:54 ` Arthur Jones
2008-10-29 19:54   ` Arthur Jones
2008-10-29 20:36     ` Eric Sandeen
2008-10-29 21:09       ` Theodore Tso
2008-10-30 13:38         ` Eric Sandeen
2008-10-30 13:55           ` Arthur Jones
2008-10-31  9:47           ` Nick Piggin [this message]
2008-10-30 17:40       ` Arthur Jones
2008-10-30 18:03         ` Eric Sandeen
2008-10-30 21:34           ` Arthur Jones
2008-10-31 17:24             ` Arthur Jones
2008-10-31 18:37               ` Eric Sandeen
2008-10-30 18:32         ` Arthur Jones
2008-11-03 18:44       ` [PATCH] ext3: wait on all pending commits in ext3_sync_fs Arthur Jones
2008-11-03 19:33         ` Andrew Morton
2008-11-03 20:14           ` Arthur Jones
2008-11-03 20:37             ` Andrew Morton
2008-11-03 20:58               ` Arthur Jones
2008-11-03 21:13                 ` Andrew Morton
2008-11-03 21:19                   ` Theodore Tso
2008-11-03 21:27                     ` Andrew Morton
2008-11-03 21:48                       ` Theodore Tso
2008-11-03 22:01                       ` Theodore Tso
2008-11-03 22:18                         ` Arthur Jones
2008-11-03 22:27                         ` Andrew Morton
2008-11-03 22:55                           ` Theodore Tso
2008-11-03 23:01                             ` Arthur Jones
2008-11-03 23:12                               ` Theodore Tso
2008-11-04 16:26                                 ` Arthur Jones
2008-11-03 21:48               ` Arthur Jones
2008-11-03 22:47                 ` Theodore Tso
2008-12-18 23:17             ` Jan Kara
2008-12-18 23:37               ` Eric Sandeen
2008-12-19  0:27                 ` Jan Kara
2008-12-19  1:34                   ` Eric Sandeen
2008-12-22 19:15                     ` Ric Wheeler
2008-12-22 22:57                       ` Andreas Dilger
2008-12-23  0:09                         ` Ric Wheeler
2008-12-23 15:56                         ` Eric Sandeen
2009-01-12 22:28                 ` Jan Kara
2009-01-13 17:21                   ` Eric Sandeen
2009-01-13 22:14               ` Eric Sandeen
2009-01-14  4:24                 ` Theodore Tso
2009-01-14 17:26                   ` Eric Sandeen
2009-01-14 17:27                   ` Jan Kara
2009-01-29 18:27                     ` Mike Snitzer
2009-01-29 20:05                       ` Eric Sandeen
2008-11-03 19:59         ` Eric Sandeen

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