Re: [GIT PULL] ext4 changes for 4.2-rc1

From: Jan Kara
Date: Mon Jun 29 2015 - 04:27:20 EST


On Sat 27-06-15 10:07:43, Ted Tso wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 27, 2015 at 12:02:37AM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> >
> > I would tend to agree. The weird thing though is that I haven't seen
> > this problem myself, despite running multiple regression tests before
> > I sent the pull request, as well as running it on my laptop and doing
> > kernel compiles with make -j16 and reading e-mail (I'm typing this
> > e-mail on a 4.1 kernel merged with the ext4 patches for this merge
> > window, so I have this commit running in my development laptop, and it
> > hasn't triggered for me).
>
> Update: I've been able to reproduce the crash using a post merge
> kernel (of course, I had to use CONFIG_SLUB since CONFIG_SLAB is
> busted) a single time. Unfortunately, I've not been able to reproduce
> it reliably so I can't speak to whether reverting 2143c1965a76 will
> fix things. But it does seem very likely.

Sure, I agree with the revert Linus did. That's the best we can do now.
I'm now trying to figure out what could have gone wrong.

Honza

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Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx>
SUSE Labs, CR
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