From: Alexander Beregalov Subject: Re: next-20090206: deadlock on ext4 Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2009 12:56:33 +0300 Message-ID: References: <498C7671.1050309@redhat.com> <498C9876.3060208@redhat.com> <4995F27E.3070401@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "linux-next@vger.kernel.org" , linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, LKML To: Eric Sandeen Return-path: In-Reply-To: <4995F27E.3070401@redhat.com> Sender: linux-next-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ext4.vger.kernel.org 2009/2/14 Eric Sandeen : > Alexander Beregalov wrote: > >> I have reproduced it with 2.6.29-rc4. >> Loop file was on XFS. >> I can not reproduce it on ext4 on raw device. >> Let me know if I can do anything else to help resolving it. >> > Can you try this patch from Aneesh? Works for me... > Yes, it works, I can not reproduce the bug on 2.6.29-rc5-00122-g5955c7a which contains 2acf2c261b82 "ext4: Implement range_cyclic in ext4_da_writepages instead of write_cache_pages" Thanks