From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>,
syzbot <syzbot+2fc0712f8f8b8b8fa0ef@syzkaller.appspotmail.com>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Linux-MM <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
syzkaller-bugs <syzkaller-bugs@googlegroups.com>
Subject: Re: kernel BUG at mm/page-writeback.c:LINE!
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2021 11:53:48 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAHk-=wh=5kDGukMs2sVZ8uHZJX4VL13oD5+xMAR4HvuY6QckLg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHk-=wi36CBggdRfdggACvf2hG+djM9kKnorrwsByN6uDvPExA@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, Jan 5, 2021 at 11:31 AM Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Jan 4, 2021 at 7:29 PM Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> wrote:
> >
> > > So the one-liner of changing the "if" to "while" in
> > > wait_on_page_writeback() should get us back to what we used to do.
> >
> > I think that is the realistic way to go.
>
> Yeah, that's what I'll do.
I took your "way to go" statement as an ack, and made it all be commit
c2407cf7d22d ("mm: make wait_on_page_writeback() wait for multiple
pending writebacks").
Linus
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-01-05 19:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-01-03 14:19 syzbot
2021-01-04 20:41 ` Andrew Morton
2021-01-04 21:52 ` Linus Torvalds
2021-01-05 3:28 ` Hugh Dickins
2021-01-05 19:31 ` Linus Torvalds
2021-01-05 19:53 ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2021-01-05 21:13 ` Hugh Dickins
2021-01-05 21:22 ` Linus Torvalds
2021-01-05 21:34 ` Matthew Wilcox
2021-01-09 2:04 ` Linus Torvalds
2021-01-12 10:44 ` Jan Kara
2021-01-12 17:35 ` Linus Torvalds
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