From: Matt Fleming <matt@console-pimps.org>
To: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@suse.de>
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org, Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>, Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/6] fix xfs by making I/O to vmap/vmalloc areas work
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2009 07:14:24 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090910061422.GA31781@console-pimps.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1252511536-22066-1-git-send-email-James.Bottomley@suse.de>
On Wed, Sep 09, 2009 at 10:52:10AM -0500, James Bottomley wrote:
> Here's version two of the patch set. It actually compiles on both x86
> and parisc. I could do with someone to test it on arm and sh.
>
> The key test is how xfs behaves. What I did to recreate the problem
> on parisc was simply create an 8GB xfs filesystem, use cp -a to pump
> about a GB of data into it from my git trees, then unmount and run
> xfs_check. Before the patches, xfs_check reports the whole fs to be
> corrupt. After the patches it reports everything to be OK.
>
> James
>
I'm seeing some corruption with these patches on SH and a 4GB XFS
filesystem. However, I am currently seeing other cache aliasing issues
on this board anyway. I'll do some more analysis tonight, unless Paul
can prove it's just my setup being weird again.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-09-10 6:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-09-09 15:52 [PATCH 0/6] fix xfs by making I/O to vmap/vmalloc areas work James Bottomley
2009-09-09 15:52 ` [PATCH 1/6] mm: add coherence API for DMA to vmalloc/vmap areas James Bottomley
2009-09-09 15:52 ` [PATCH 2/6] parisc: add mm " James Bottomley
2009-09-09 15:52 ` [PATCH 3/6] arm: " James Bottomley
2009-09-09 15:52 ` [PATCH 4/6] sh: " James Bottomley
2009-09-09 15:52 ` [PATCH 5/6] block: permit I/O to vmalloc/vmap kernel pages James Bottomley
2009-09-09 15:52 ` [PATCH 6/6] xfs: fix xfs to work with Virtually Indexed architectures James Bottomley
2009-09-09 17:55 ` Christoph Hellwig
2009-09-11 21:57 ` James Bottomley
2009-09-10 0:27 ` [PATCH 4/6] sh: add mm API for DMA to vmalloc/vmap areas Paul Mundt
2009-09-10 0:32 ` James Bottomley
2009-09-10 6:14 ` Matt Fleming [this message]
2009-09-11 21:37 ` [PATCH 0/6] fix xfs by making I/O to vmap/vmalloc areas work James Bottomley
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2009-09-17 23:06 James Bottomley
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