From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 12 Jul 2001 04:20:58 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 12 Jul 2001 04:20:48 -0400 Received: from penguin.e-mind.com ([195.223.140.120]:23860 "EHLO penguin.e-mind.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 12 Jul 2001 04:20:39 -0400 Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2001 10:21:05 +0200 From: Andrea Arcangeli To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.4.7pre6aa1 Message-ID: <20010712102105.D779@athlon.random> In-Reply-To: <20010712101635.C779@athlon.random> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20010712101635.C779@athlon.random>; from andrea@suse.de on Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 10:16:35AM +0200 X-GnuPG-Key-URL: http://e-mind.com/~andrea/aa.gnupg.asc X-PGP-Key-URL: http://e-mind.com/~andrea/aa.asc Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 10:16:35AM +0200, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > Only in 2.4.7pre6aa1: 40_blkdev-pagecache-5 > > Now fixed also initrd, and tested that reads and writes with part of > the page beyond of the end of the device works (assuming userspace > knows where the device ends without relying on the last > readable/writeable byte, kernel doesn't destabilize if you write and > read beyond the end though). btw, I also made a port of the blkdev in pagecache rev 5 against 2.4.7pre6+o_direct-10. So to test blkdev in pagecache you can also apply in order: ftp://ftp.us.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/andrea/patches/v2.4/2.4.7pre5/o_direct-10 ftp://ftp.us.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/andrea/patches/v2.4/2.4.7pre6/blkdev-pagecache-5 on top of 2.4.7pre6. Andrea