Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Date | Fri, 09 Dec 2011 09:37:59 -0700 | From | Allison Henderson <> | Subject | Re: Bug with "fix partial page writes" [3.2-rc regression] |
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On 12/09/2011 06:44 AM, Yongqiang Yang wrote: > On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 9:33 PM, Andy Whitcroft<apw@canonical.com> wrote: >> On Thu, Dec 08, 2011 at 06:12:35PM +0000, Andy Whitcroft wrote: >>> On Thu, Dec 08, 2011 at 09:39:55AM -0800, Hugh Dickins wrote: >>> >>> [...] >>>>> [PATCH 1/2] ext4: let mpage_submit_io works well when blocksize< pagesize >>>>> [PATCH 2/2] ext4: let ext4_discard_partial_buffers handle pages without >>>>> >>>>> [PATCH 1/2] ext4: remove a wrong BUG_ON in ext4_ext_convert_to_initialized >>>>> [PATCH 2/2] ext4: let ext4_bio_write_page handle EOF correctly >>> [...] >>>> Only once, before the fixes, did I ever see an unexplained EINVAL >>>> (from cp), like Andy reports: I'm very hopeful his case is fixed too. >>> >>> Yes I have reverted my fix and applied all four of these patches (above). >>> I have just completed a 100 iteration run of my test case without failure. >>> This would typically fail in the first iteration 90% of the time and >>> never survived more than two iterations. >>> >>> I am comfortable saying they resolve my issue. >> >> Are we likely to see these fixes in a 3.2-rcN or will they be going to >> stable? > All patches will go to 3.2-rcN and the later 2 patches would go to > stable too, I think. > > Yongqiang.
Sounds good, its lasted 24hrs now for me so I think it's safe to stop it. Thx!
Allison Henderson
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