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From: Ville Herva <vherva@vianova.fi>
To: Norbert Federa <nfedera@thinstuff.com>
Cc: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: block2mtd: Overrun end of disk in cache readahead
Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2006 13:07:27 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060705100727.GC15078@vianova.fi> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <44AB6EFA.9000604@thinstuff.com>

On Wed, Jul 05, 2006 at 09:49:14AM +0200, you [Norbert Federa] wrote:
> Ville,
> Try changing the PAGE_READAHEAD define in
> /drivers/mtd/devices/block2mtd.c from 64 to 0:
> 
> -#define PAGE_READAHEAD 64
> +#define PAGE_READAHEAD 0

Thanks.

Looking at the source, it almost looks like the error message is just a
spurious warning, not a dangerous error. Doesn't this happen when the
underlying device does not end at 64k boundary? And the readahead code just
stops reading ahead after that warning?



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  reply	other threads:[~2006-07-05 10:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-07-05  7:26 block2mtd: Overrun end of disk in cache readahead Ville Herva
2006-07-05  7:49 ` Norbert Federa
2006-07-05 10:07   ` Ville Herva [this message]
2006-07-05 11:22     ` Jörn Engel
2006-07-06  8:28       ` Ville Herva

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