Hugh Dickins:
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> LTP's iogen01 doio tests used to hang nicely on 32-bit SMP when /tmp was a
> unionfs mount of a tmpfs, i_size_read spinning forever, waiting for a lost
> seqcount update: fixed by taking i_lock around i_size_write when 32-bit SMP.

I don't know why dst->i_lock is affected by src->i_size_seqcount.
Do you mean that your test issued write(2) to the lower/actual file so
frequently that i_size_read() in unionfs always failed?

Is your test
iogen01 export LTPROOT; rwtest -N iogen01 -i 120s -s read,write -Da -Dv -n 2 500b:doio.f1.$$ 1000b:doio.f2.$$
line in runtest/fs?


Junjiro Okajima
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