Re: Bug with "fix partial page writes" [3.2-rc regression]

[Allison Henderson]

On 12/09/2011 06:44 AM, Yongqiang Yang wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 9:33 PM, Andy Whitcroft<apw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>  wrote:
> > On Thu, Dec 08, 2011 at 06:12:35PM +0000, Andy Whitcroft wrote:
> > > On Thu, Dec 08, 2011 at 09:39:55AM -0800, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> > >
> > > [...]
> > > > > [PATCH 1/2] ext4: let mpage_submit_io works well when blocksize<  pagesize
> > > > > [PATCH 2/2] ext4: let ext4_discard_partial_buffers handle pages without
> > > > >
> > > > > [PATCH 1/2] ext4: remove a wrong BUG_ON in ext4_ext_convert_to_initialized
> > > > > [PATCH 2/2] ext4: let ext4_bio_write_page handle EOF correctly
> > > [...]
> > > > Only once, before the fixes, did I ever see an unexplained EINVAL
> > > > (from cp), like Andy reports: I'm very hopeful his case is fixed too.
> > >
> > > Yes I have reverted my fix and applied all four of these patches (above).
> > > I have just completed a 100 iteration run of my test case without failure.
> > > This would typically fail in the first iteration 90% of the time and
> > > never survived more than two iterations.
> > >
> > > I am comfortable saying they resolve my issue.
> >
> > Are we likely to see these fixes in a 3.2-rcN or will they be going to
> > stable?
> All patches will go to 3.2-rcN and the later 2 patches would go to
> stable too, I think.
>
> Yongqiang.

Sounds good, its lasted 24hrs now for me so I think it's safe to stop 
it.  Thx!

Allison Henderson

> > -apw

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