Re: CFS: Linux VM recursion fix
John Hughes <[email protected]> Wed, 21 Dec 2011 15:36:50 +0100
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.cluster.ssic.devel |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
On 16/11/11 18:22, Roger Tsang wrote: > Hi, > > The latest CVS check-in fixes a potential corruption at CFS server due > to recursion. The bug was CFS inherited the backing device info of > the backing file system. The Linux VM is re-entrant at > balance_dirty_pages() and can call CFS recursively when the backing > device info are the same on both file systems. > > CFS -> VM -> PFS -> VM -> CFS -> VM -> PFS ... > > The Linux VM may not call this far down and may not traverse file > systems exactly as shown but if this happens you may get stack > overflow, etc. Interesting. Does this mean OpenSSI might work with 4K stacks now? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Write once. Port to many. Get the SDK and tools to simplify cross-platform app development. Create new or port existing apps to sell to consumers worldwide. Explore the Intel AppUpSM program developer opportunity. appdeveloper.intel.com/join http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-appdev