Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753422AbZAEQ2U (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Jan 2009 11:28:20 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751465AbZAEQ2M (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Jan 2009 11:28:12 -0500 Received: from nat-warsl417-01.aon.at ([195.3.96.119]:60166 "EHLO email.aon.at" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750890AbZAEQ2L (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Jan 2009 11:28:11 -0500 X-Greylist: delayed 402 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Mon, 05 Jan 2009 11:28:10 EST Message-ID: <49623384.2070801@aon.at> Date: Mon, 05 Jan 2009 17:21:24 +0100 From: Peter Klotz User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.18 (X11/20081125) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Nick Piggin CC: Christoph Hellwig , Roman Kononov , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, xfs@oss.sgi.com Subject: Re: BUG: soft lockup - is this XFS problem? References: <20081223171259.GA11945@infradead.org> <20081230042333.GC27679@wotan.suse.de> <20090103214443.GA6612@infradead.org> <20090105014821.GA367@wotan.suse.de> <20090105041959.GC367@wotan.suse.de> <20090105064838.GA5209@wotan.suse.de> In-Reply-To: <20090105064838.GA5209@wotan.suse.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 610 Lines: 18 Nick Piggin wrote: > I believe this patch should solve it. Please test and confirm before > I send it upstream. My test successfully completed two times, writing a 900GB file in each run. I used a patched 2.6.27.10 x86_64 kernel. On an unpatched system this test usually fails before reaching 100GB. Thank you for fixing this issue that quick. Regards, Peter. -- 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/