3.1-rc4: spectacular kernel errors / filesystem crash

[Justin Piszcz]

On Tue, 13 Sep 2011, Jon Mason wrote:

> On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 9:54 AM, Justin Piszcz <jpiszcz at lucidpixels.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> On Tue, 13 Sep 2011, Eric Dumazet wrote:
>>
>>> Please Justin make sure you pulled commit
>>> commit ed2888e906b56769b4ffabb9c577190438aa68b8
>>> Author: Jon Mason <mason at myri.com>
>>> Date:   Thu Sep 8 16:41:18 2011 -0500
>>>
>>>   PCI: Remove MRRS modification from MPS setting code
>>>
>>>   Modifying the Maximum Read Request Size to 0 (value of 128Bytes) has
>>>   massive negative ramifications on some devices.  Without knowing which
>>>   devices have this issue, do not modify from the default value when
>>>   walking the PCI-E bus in pcie_bus_safe mode.  Also, make pcie_bus_safe
>>>   the default procedure.
>>>
>>>   Tested-by: Sven Schnelle <svens at stackframe.org>
>>>   Tested-by: Simon Kirby <sim at hostway.ca>
>>>   Tested-by: Stephen M. Cameron <scameron at beardog.cce.hp.com>
>>>   Reported-and-tested-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet at gmail.com>
>>>   Reported-and-tested-by: Niels Ole Salscheider
>>> <niels_ole at salscheider-online.
>>>   References: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42162
>>>   Signed-off-by: Jon Mason <mason at myri.com>
>>>   Acked-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes at virtuousgeek.org>
>>>   Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds at linux-foundation.org>
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I found this commit here:
>> http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.pci/11700
>
> This is an early version of the patch.  This is the patch that you want:
> https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/ed2888e906b56769b4ffabb9c577190438aa68b8
>
> It appears that this patch didn't make it to lkml or linux-pci list
> due to kernel.org DNS being down when it was sent.
>
> Thanks,
> Jon

I need to learn how to use git at some point, can you please provide plain
text patches so I can apply them and reboot?

Justin.