From: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Subject: [PATCH 0/5] 2.6.21-rc7 NFS writes: fix a series of issues
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2007 16:03:58 -0400
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Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Florin Iucha <florin@iucha.net>,
	Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>, nfs@lists.sourceforge.net,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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I've split the issues introduced by the 2.6.21-rcX write code up into 4
subproblems.

The first patch is just a cleanup in order to ease review.

Patch number 2 ensures that we never release the PG_writeback flag until
_after_ we've either discarded the unstable request altogether, or put it
on the nfs_inode's commit or dirty lists.

Patch number 3 fixes the 'desynchronized value of nfs_i.ncommit' error. It
uses the PG_NEED_COMMIT flag as an indicator for whether or not the request
may be redirtied.

Patch number 4 protects the NFS '.set_page_dirty' address_space operation
against races with nfs_inode_add_request.

Finally, patch number 5 fixes an issue with the RPC code that is supposed
ensure that NFSv4 disconnects before resending a request. The current code
will disconnect for every request it resends (and has a bunch of false
positive cases), instead of just ensuring that it disconnects once every
time a timeout or a garbage reply occurs.

My thanks to the various patient victim^Wpeople who helped with extensive
testing.

Cheers
  Trond

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