Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 22 Dec 2015 17:39:33 +0100 | From | Guillaume Morin <> | Subject | Re: Linux 3.14.58 |
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Jason,
On 22 Dec 11:02, Jason Baron wrote: > We've noticed livelocks in shrink_dentry_list() very similar to this > report on stable 3.14.56: > http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1405.3/00470.html > > It appears that the patches that introduced this issue came into 3.14.51 > in August with the same set of patches mentioned in the referenced > report. We unfortunately haven't narrowed down a reproducer, so I can't > bisect the issue, but 3.14.50 did not appear to have the issue. > > Upstream merge commit - 6f6111e4a73d0f6370eb8be4f8e4523210b6a67d (Pull > vfs dcache livelock fix from Al Viro) brought in a series to address > this issue. So that may be needed here as well...
FWIW I noticed the same thing. The commits listed in http://www.spinics.net/lists/stable/msg111553.html fixed the problem for me.
I assume Greg will pick them up soon...
-- Guillaume Morin <guillaume@morinfr.org>
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