On 05/29/2013 09:59 AM, Luis Henriques wrote: > Dave Kleikamp <[email protected]> writes: > >> Commit 73aaa22d5ffb2630456bac2f9a4ed9b81d0d7271 upstream >> >> This fixes a real-world hang reported against the 3.9.3 kernel. > > The races described in the commit seem to be present in all the other > stable kernels. Could you please confirm this is also applicable for > older kernels?
This patch is applicable and safe for older kernels as well. As the problem has only been seen recently, I suspect that it might be triggered by the writeback changes that were merged into 3.5 (commit 90324cc1) but I'm not certain of that. Thanks, Shaggy -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
