On Wed, 2013-05-29 at 10:48 -0500, Dave Kleikamp wrote: > 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.
I've queued this up for 3.2, thanks. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings friends: People who know you well, but like you anyway.
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