Comment 194 for bug 330824

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Derek (bugs-m8y) wrote : Re: [Bug 330824] Re: Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28

On Fri, 19 Jun 2009, Theodore Ts'o wrote:

> P.S. There is a known ext4 file system corruption bug which is fixed in
> the 2.6.30 mainline kernel and in 2.6.29.5. It was found after the
> stable kernel series stopped updating for 2.6.28, but I do carry a fix
> for it in my for-stable-2.6.28 branch of the ext4 git tree, located
> here:
>
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4.git for-stable-2.6.28
> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4.git;a=shortlog;h=for-stable-2.6.28
>
> (This is where it's handy to have a file system specialist working at
> the distribution; when I found the problem, I was able to contact Eric
> and he made sure the patch was quickly dropped into the F11 kernel.)

Is this:
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4.git;a=commitdiff;h=16cb5dd9f53e569130584696909d423b6fe38c1e

?

'cause the machines I was getting lockups on were single core.