Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753228AbXLSLRm (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Dec 2007 06:17:42 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751280AbXLSLRd (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Dec 2007 06:17:33 -0500 Received: from smtp-103-wednesday.noc.nerim.net ([62.4.17.103]:3539 "EHLO mallaury.nerim.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751124AbXLSLRc (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Dec 2007 06:17:32 -0500 X-Greylist: delayed 74819 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Wed, 19 Dec 2007 06:17:32 EST From: Damien Wyart To: David Chinner Cc: Christoph Hellwig , Lachlan McIlroy , Peter Leckie , Linus Torvalds , linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com, LKML Subject: Re: Important regression with XFS update for 2.6.24-rc6 References: <20071218112804.GA3069@localhost.localdomain> <20071218122445.GJ4396912@sgi.com> <877ijckrco.fsf@free.fr> <20071218151946.GQ4396912@sgi.com> <20071219104544.GC4612@sgi.com> Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2007 12:17:30 +0100 In-Reply-To: <20071219104544.GC4612@sgi.com> (David Chinner's message of "Wed, 19 Dec 2007 21:45:44 +1100") Message-ID: <87r6hjaq7p.fsf@free.fr> User-Agent: Gnus/5.110007 (No Gnus v0.7) Emacs/23.0.50 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 920 Lines: 28 * David Chinner [071219 11:45]: > Can someone pass me a brown paper bag, please? My first impression on this bug was not so wrong, after all ;-) > That also explains why we haven't seen it - it requires the user > buffer to fill on the first entry of a backing buffer and so it is > largely dependent on the pattern of name lengths, page size and > filesystem block size aligning just right to trigger the problem. I guess I was lucky to trigger it quite easily... > Can you test this patch, Damien? Works fine, all the bad symptoms have disappeared and strace output is normal. So you can add: Tested-by: Damien Wyart -- Damien -- 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/