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Re: [PATCH block/for-linus] writeback: fix syncing of I_DIRTY_TIME inodes

From Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH block/for-linus] writeback: fix syncing of I_DIRTY_TIME inodes
Date 2015-08-17 22:10 +0200
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Hello, Damien.

On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 05:14:01PM +0200, Damien Wyart wrote:
> I had an unstable system when running latest Linus tree with Tejun's
> patch applied on top. Nothing fishy in the logs after rebooting without
> the patch, but remote access with ssh when patch applied did not work
> (as if /home partition could not be read). This system has / as ext4 and
> other partitions (including /home) as XFS. Trying to login on tty
> instead of X resulted in hang of X. I could reboot with sysrq, but can't
> do further tests at the moment.
> 
> Back to same tree without the patch resulted in normal system.
> 
> So just a heads up the patch doesn't seem OK in its current state.

Have you been able to reproduce the failure?  That sounds like an
unlikely failure mode for the patch.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun
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[PATCH block/for-linus] writeback: fix syncing of I_DIRTY_TIME inodes Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> - 2015-08-14 00:50 +0200
  Re: [PATCH block/for-linus] writeback: fix syncing of I_DIRTY_TIME  inodes Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> - 2015-08-14 13:20 +0200
    Re: [PATCH block/for-linus] writeback: fix syncing of I_DIRTY_TIME  inodes Damien Wyart <damien.wyart@gmail.com> - 2015-08-14 17:30 +0200
      Re: [PATCH block/for-linus] writeback: fix syncing of I_DIRTY_TIME  inodes Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> - 2015-08-17 22:10 +0200
        Re: [PATCH block/for-linus] writeback: fix syncing of I_DIRTY_TIME  inodes Damien Wyart <damien.wyart@gmail.com> - 2015-08-18 07:40 +0200
    Re: [PATCH block/for-linus] writeback: fix syncing of I_DIRTY_TIME  inodes Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> - 2015-08-17 22:10 +0200
      Re: [PATCH block/for-linus] writeback: fix syncing of I_DIRTY_TIME  inodes Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> - 2015-08-18 11:20 +0200
        Re: [PATCH block/for-linus] writeback: fix syncing of I_DIRTY_TIME  inodes Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> - 2015-08-18 19:50 +0200
          Re: [PATCH block/for-linus] writeback: fix syncing of I_DIRTY_TIME  inodes Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> - 2015-08-18 22:00 +0200
            Re: [PATCH block/for-linus] writeback: fix syncing of I_DIRTY_TIME  inodes Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> - 2015-08-19 00:00 +0200

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