Return-Path: linux-nfs-owner@vger.kernel.org Received: from fieldses.org ([174.143.236.118]:46493 "EHLO fieldses.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753516Ab1J0UeP (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 Oct 2011 16:34:15 -0400 Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2011 16:34:12 -0400 From: "J. Bruce Fields" To: Boaz Harrosh Cc: Linus Torvalds , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: nfsd (and lock) changes for 3.2 Message-ID: <20111027203412.GB31669@fieldses.org> References: <20111025121924.GA15662@fieldses.org> <4EA77B78.6080706@panasas.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <4EA77B78.6080706@panasas.com> Sender: linux-nfs-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 08:16:08PM -0700, Boaz Harrosh wrote: > On 10/25/2011 05:19 AM, J. Bruce Fields wrote: > > Boaz Harrosh (1): > > nfsd4: fix failure to end nfsd4 grace period > > > > Bruce hi. > > As I recall this failure I have experienced in early stages of the > 3.1-rcX series. I admit that I always run with Benny's pnfs tree, > but I do not think it is patches that Benny added from the 3.2 set > I think it is breakage introduced by the 3.1 merge window. > > Therefor I think that this patch must be sent to Stable@ otherwise > surly 3.1 Kernel users are to hit it. (You can escapee it) We need to test it, but I think you're probably correct, 6577aac01f00636c16cd583c30bd4dedf18475d5 "nfsd4: fix failure to end nfsd4 grace period" should have been tagged for stable. Does that also require any previous patches? (E.g. 48483bf23a568f3ef4cc7ad2c8f1a082f10ad0e7 "nfsd4: simplify recovery dir setting"?) --b.