Re: 2.6.2-mm1 aka "Geriatric Wombat" DIO read race still fails

From: Daniel McNeil
Date: Thu Feb 05 2004 - 18:35:21 EST


Andrew,

I tested 2.6.2-mm1 on an 8-proc running 6 copies of the read_under
test and all 6 read_under tests saw uninitialized data in less than 5
minutes. :(

Daniel



On Thu, 2004-02-05 at 01:44, Andrew Morton wrote:
> ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.2/2.6.2-mm1/

>
> O_DIRECT-ll_rw_block-vs-block_write_full_page-fix.patch
> Fix race between ll_rw_block() and block_write_full_page()
>


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