Bugzilla : 7407
Description: Running on many-way SMP OSTs can trigger oops in llcd_send()
Details : A race between allocating a new llcd and re-getting the llcd_lock
- allowed another thread to grab newly-allocated llcd.
+ allowed another thread to grab newly-allocated llcd.
Severity : enhancement
Bugzilla : 7116
Description: 2.6 OST async journal commit and locking fix to improve performance
Details : The filter_direct_io()+filter_commitrw_write() journal commits for
- 2.6 kernels are now async as they already were in 2.4 kernels so
- that they can commit concurrently with the network bulk transfer.
- For block-allocated files the filter allocation semaphore is held
- to avoid filesystem fragmentation during allocation. BKL lock
+ 2.6 kernels are now async as they already were in 2.4 kernels so
+ that they can commit concurrently with the network bulk transfer.
+ For block-allocated files the filter allocation semaphore is held
+ to avoid filesystem fragmentation during allocation. BKL lock
removed for 2.6 xattr operations where it is no longer needed.
Severity : minor
connection to a disjoint part of the IP space. It was doing the
math incorrectly for one set of cases.
+Severity : major
+Frequency : rare
+Bugzilla : 7359
+Description: Fix for potential infinite loop processing records in an llog.
+Details : If an llog record is corrupted/zeroed, it is possible to loop
+ forever in llog_process(). Validate the llog record length
+ and skip the remainder of the block on error.
+
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Bugzilla : 7264
Description: Mounting an ldiskfs file system with mballoc may crash OST node.
Details : ldiskfs mballoc code may reference an uninitialized buddy struct
- at startup during orphan unlinking. Instead, skip buddy update
- before setup, as it will be regenerated after recovery is complete.
+ at startup during orphan unlinking. Instead, skip buddy update
+ before setup, as it will be regenerated after recovery is complete.
Severity : minor
Frequency : rare
Bugzilla : 7039
Description: If an OST is inactive, its locks might reference stale inodes.
Details : lov_change_cbdata() must iterate over all namespaces, even if
- they are inactive to clear inode references from the lock.
+ they are inactive to clear inode references from the lock.
Severity : enhancement
Frequency : occasional, if non-standard max_dirty_mb used
Bugzilla : 7138
Description: Client will block write RPCs if not enough grant
Details : If a client has max_dirty_mb smaller than max_rpcs_in_flight,
- then the client will block writes while waiting for another RPC
- to complete instead of consuming its dirty limit. With change
- we get improved performance when max_dirty_mb is small.
+ then the client will block writes while waiting for another RPC
+ to complete instead of consuming its dirty limit. With change
+ we get improved performance when max_dirty_mb is small.
Severity : enhancement
Bugzilla : 3389, 6253
Description: Add support for supplementary groups on the MDS.
Details : The MDS has an upcall /proc/fs/lustre/mds/{mds}/group_upcall
- (set to /usr/sbin/l_getgroups if enabled) which will do MDS-side
- lookups for user supplementary groups into a cache.
+ (set to /usr/sbin/l_getgroups if enabled) which will do MDS-side
+ lookups for user supplementary groups into a cache.
Severity : minor
Bugzilla : 7278