Re: fsync02 test hangs 2.5.1-pre3 + patch

Alexander Viro (viro@math.psu.edu)
Thu, 29 Nov 2001 02:17:54 -0500 (EST)


On Thu, 29 Nov 2001, Alexander Viro wrote:

> OK, so what we have is breakage in bio parts merged in -pre3 _or_ breakage
> going back to -pre2. If you could rerun these tests for vanilla 2.5.1-pre2
> and see if they break...

Latency is a bitch... Sorry - I got your previous posting (saying that
2.5.1-pre2 was OK) only now.

So it looks like it had been introduced in -pre3 minus fs/super.c changes.
Which leaves only bio stuff - AFAICS nothing aside of these two had any
chance to give a deadlock of that sort.

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