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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp>
Cc: Chris Mason <clm@fb.com>, Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>,
	bugzilla-daemon@bugzilla.kernel.org,
	bugzilla.kernel.org@plan9.de, linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Subject: Re: [Bug 199931] New: systemd/rtorrent file data corruption when using echo 3 >/proc/sys/vm/drop_caches
Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2018 14:38:46 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180605143846.ec86323745ead25c74bc4c37@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <34c7a73b-15d5-4d67-fa7c-0630b30a4c1c@i-love.sakura.ne.jp>

On Wed, 6 Jun 2018 06:22:25 +0900 Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp> wrote:

> On 2018/06/06 5:03, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > 
> > (switched to email.  Please respond via emailed reply-to-all, not via the
> > bugzilla web interface).
> > 
> > On Tue, 05 Jun 2018 18:01:36 +0000 bugzilla-daemon@bugzilla.kernel.org wrote:
> > 
> >> https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=199931
> >>
> >>             Bug ID: 199931
> >>            Summary: systemd/rtorrent file data corruption when using echo
> >>                     3 >/proc/sys/vm/drop_caches
> > 
> > A long tale of woe here.  Chris, do you think the pagecache corruption
> > is a general thing, or is it possible that btrfs is contributing?
> 
> According to timestamp of my testcases, I was observing corrupted-bytes issue upon OOM-kill
> (without using btrfs) as of 2017 Aug 11. Thus, I don't think that this is specific to btrfs.
> But I can't find which patch fixed this issue.

That sounds different.  Here, the corruption is caused by performing
drop_caches, not by an oom-killing.

  reply	other threads:[~2018-06-05 21:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <bug-199931-27@https.bugzilla.kernel.org/>
2018-06-05 20:03 ` Andrew Morton
2018-06-05 21:22   ` Tetsuo Handa
2018-06-05 21:38     ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2018-06-05 21:52   ` james harvey
2018-06-06 19:06     ` Marc Lehmann
2018-06-06 20:33       ` james harvey
2018-06-08  7:18       ` Duncan
2018-06-06  0:18   ` Chris Mason
2018-06-06 13:38     ` Liu Bo
2018-06-06 13:44       ` Chris Mason
2018-06-06 13:55         ` Liu Bo
2018-06-06  8:45   ` Michal Hocko

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