From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S267053AbUBEXbt (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Feb 2004 18:31:49 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S267070AbUBEXbt (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Feb 2004 18:31:49 -0500 Received: from fw.osdl.org ([65.172.181.6]:20125 "EHLO mail.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S267053AbUBEXbr (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Feb 2004 18:31:47 -0500 Subject: Re: 2.6.2-mm1 aka "Geriatric Wombat" DIO read race still fails From: Daniel McNeil To: Andrew Morton Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List , linux-mm@kvack.org, "linux-aio@kvack.org" In-Reply-To: <20040205014405.5a2cf529.akpm@osdl.org> References: <20040205014405.5a2cf529.akpm@osdl.org> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Message-Id: <1076023899.7182.97.camel@ibm-c.pdx.osdl.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.2 (1.2.2-5) Date: 05 Feb 2004 15:31:39 -0800 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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() >