From: Christoph Rohland <cr@sap.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@caldera.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@transmeta.com
Subject: Re: Patch (repost): cramfs memory corruption fix
Date: 08 Jan 2001 15:43:19 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <qwwofxit88o.fsf@sap.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200101081419.PAA26150@ns.caldera.de>
In-Reply-To: Christoph Hellwig's message of "Mon, 8 Jan 2001 15:19:25 +0100"
Hi Christoph,
On Mon, 8 Jan 2001, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> I had a prototype tmpfs in -test10 (ro so) times. It based on ramfs
> for all the metadata stuff and used the (old) shmfs code for
> swap-backed data. The only real problem the code had, was that it
> needed a ->allocpage address_space method in place of
> page_cache_alloc() to directly swap-in pages in ->read. IF anyone
> is interested I could forward port it to 2.4.0 and the new shmfs.
Be aware that there is nothing left from the old shm memory/swap
handling in 2.4.0. It is a copy of ramfs plus additions for swap and
resource limits
If you would be willing to add the read and write functions to the new
coding I would be very happy.
Greetings
Christoph
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-01-08 14:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-01-07 6:41 Patch (repost): cramfs memory corruption fix Adam J. Richter
2001-01-07 13:53 ` Alan Cox
2001-01-07 19:26 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-01-07 19:42 ` Alan Cox
2001-01-07 19:56 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-01-07 21:11 ` Rik van Riel
2001-01-07 21:20 ` Alan Cox
2001-01-08 6:56 ` Eric W. Biederman
2001-01-07 21:54 ` Chris Wedgwood
2001-01-08 13:37 ` Christoph Rohland
2001-01-08 14:19 ` Christoph Hellwig
2001-01-08 14:43 ` Christoph Rohland [this message]
2001-01-08 14:42 ` Alan Cox
2001-01-08 14:49 ` Christoph Rohland
2001-01-07 20:39 ` David L. Parsley
2001-01-08 18:27 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-01-08 3:46 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-01-08 13:11 ` David Woodhouse
2001-01-08 12:30 ` Shane Nay
2001-01-08 14:34 ` David Woodhouse
2001-01-10 23:30 ` [PATCH] one-liner fix for bforget() honoring BH_Protected; was: " David L. Parsley
2001-01-11 4:23 ` Linus Torvalds
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