Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1761052AbXEPQIS (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 May 2007 12:08:18 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756722AbXEPQIM (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 May 2007 12:08:12 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:34064 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756689AbXEPQIK (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 May 2007 12:08:10 -0400 Message-ID: <464B2C0B.20500@redhat.com> Date: Wed, 16 May 2007 12:06:35 -0400 From: Chuck Ebbert Organization: Red Hat User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 (X11/20070302) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Tejun Heo CC: Andrew Morton , Clemens Schwaighofer , linux-kernel , Maneesh Soni , Dipankar Sarma , Greg KH Subject: Re: Oops and Panics in 2.6.21.1, 2.6.20.6 and 2.6.19.2 References: <464A4F56.6080108@tequila.co.jp> <20070515185350.2e77bf21.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <464AE56F.3040101@gmail.com> <20070516082935.fe112ab5.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <464B2605.9040200@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <464B2605.9040200@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 850 Lines: 21 Tejun Heo wrote: >>> The safest approach I can think of is making >>> dentries for attributes unreclaimable but those are made reclaimable for >>> good reasons. :-( >> Yeah, that was the google workaround. It's OK unless you happen to have >> thousands of disks on an ia32 box. > > I see. I thought there was different approach on fixing the problem. > I'll try to backport the synchronization fix but am afraid it can be too > risky for -stable. If it seems too risky, I'll send a patch to disable > reclamation. > Realistically, how can disabling the reclamation be worse than what's there now? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/