Re: Updated 2.4 TODO List

tytso
2000-10-11T18:38:00Z

> 2. Capable Of Corrupting Your FS/data
>
> * Non-atomic page-map operations can cause loss of dirty bit on
> pages (sct, alan)

Is anybody looking into fixing this bug ?

According to sct (who's sitting next to me in my hotel room at ALS) Ben
LaHaise has a bugfix for this, but it hasn't been merged.

> * VM: Fix the highmem deadlock, where the swapper cannot create low
> memory bounce buffers OR swap out low memory because it has
> consumed all resources {CRITICAL} (old bug, already reported in
> 2.4.0test6)

Haven't been able to reproduce it on my 1GB test machine,
but it might still be there. Can anyone confirm if this
bug is still present ?

Note: all of the issues on the TODO list with the "VM:" prefix are from
a VM todo list you posted a week or two ago; so I'm assuming that you
know more about those issues than I do..... (feel free to send me an
updated list and I'll merge it into the 2.4 TODO list.)

- Ted