[PATCH, -stable RFC] xfs: fix periodic log flushing

[Andre Noll]

On Wed, Dec 19, 10:25, Dave Chinner wrote:
> AFAIK 3.6 is still being updated - 3.6.11 was tagged only 29 hours ago.

Quoting from the 3.6.11 release announcement:

	Note, this is the LAST kernel in the 3.6.y series, it is
	now end-of-life.  Please move to the 3.7.y kernel series at
	this time.

> I probably should also mention in the commit message that there is
> no equivalent upstream fix, as the fix in 3.8 is part of a complete
> reworking of the code and hence not appropriate for backporting
> to -stable.

Definitely. Greg tends to get grumpy when he is asked to apply a
patch for the stable series that has no counterpart upstream :)

> > > -	if (!(mp->m_super->s_flags & MS_ACTIVE) &&
> > 
> > appears to be in the longterm kernels 3.2.35 and 3.4.24 as well (it
> > was changed in commit 1307bbd which got reverted in 11159a05). Are
> > these kernels also affected?
> 
> I have no idea - I don't track them, don't test them and haven't
> tried to reproduce the problem on them.
> 
> If you want to support all the stable trees, you're welcome to do
> all this, but it's not something I care to do. We have reports of
> this problem on 3.5 to 3.7 and the patch applies to all three
> kernels, so that's as far as I care right now....

Understood. Personally, I only care about 3.4 as this is the kernel we
are running on most of our production systems. Would you be willing
to submit the patch also for 3.4-stable if Matthias or myself
reproduced the issue on 3.4 and confirmed that the patch fixes the
problem there as well?

Thanks
Andre
-- 
The only person who always got his work done by Friday was Robinson Crusoe
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