From: Ben Collins <bcollins@ubuntu.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk
Subject: Re: [Ubuntu PATCH] fix VFS nr_files accounting
Date: Tue, 04 Jul 2006 11:06:56 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1152025616.23756.93.camel@grayson> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060703235031.0fe17c18.akpm@osdl.org>
On Mon, 2006-07-03 at 23:50 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Mon, 03 Jul 2006 13:46:57 -0700
> Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> wrote:
>
> >
> > lkml discussion: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/385438/focus=385478
> >
> > Already in -mm?
> >
> > From: Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com>
> >
> > Ubuntu patch location:
> > http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/bcollins/ubuntu-dapper.git;a=commitdiff;h=5ce2ed3a63172c6ce0b97069e449960c2d538623
> >
>
> hm. This is actually a reversion of
> 529bf6be5c04f2e869d07bfdb122e9fd98ade714, so it presumably reintroduces the
> problem discussed in that lkml thread.
>
> Ben, what's the story here?
This was pulled in to try to fix some problems we were seeing on
sparc64. However, this backported patch broke other architectures (I
think x86_64 wouldn't even boot), so was reverted.
I can't remember any more details than that.
--
Ubuntu - http://www.ubuntu.com/
Debian - http://www.debian.org/
Linux 1394 - http://www.linux1394.org/
SwissDisk - http://www.swissdisk.com/
prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-07-04 15:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-07-03 20:46 [Ubuntu PATCH] fix VFS nr_files accounting Randy Dunlap
2006-07-04 6:50 ` Andrew Morton
2006-07-04 15:06 ` Ben Collins [this message]
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=1152025616.23756.93.camel@grayson \
--to=bcollins@ubuntu.com \
--cc=akpm@osdl.org \
--cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=randy.dunlap@oracle.com \
--cc=viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is an external index of several public inboxes,
see mirroring instructions on how to clone and mirror
all data and code used by this external index.