From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Greg KH Subject: Re: open(2) says O_DIRECT works on 512 byte boundries? Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2009 15:41:53 -0800 Message-ID: <20090204234153.GA32244@kroah.com> References: <20090128213322.GA15789@kroah.com> <20090129141338.34e44a1f.kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> <20090129160826.701E.KOSAKI.MOTOHIRO@jp.fujitsu.com> <20090130061714.GC31209@kroah.com> <20090202220856.GY20323@random.random> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20090202220856.GY20323-ulAA2RpUuRJvbPj5LQlJ3g@public.gmane.org> Sender: linux-man-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Andrea Arcangeli Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro , KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki , mtk.manpages-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org, linux-man-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, linux-kernel-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-Id: linux-man@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Feb 02, 2009 at 11:08:56PM +0100, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > Hi Greg! > > > Thanks for the pointers, I'll go read the thread and follow up there. > > If you also run into this final fix is attached below. Porting to > mainline is a bit hard because of gup-fast... Perhaps we can use mmu > notifiers to fix gup-fast... need to think more about it then I'll > post something. > > Please help testing the below on pre-gup-fast kernels, thanks! What kernel version was this patch against? I can't seem to apply it to anything close to mainline :( I tried 2.6.29-rc3, 2.6.28-stable and 2.6.27-stable. thanks, greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html