Re: Xfs Access to block zero exception and system crash

[Sagar Borikar <sagar_borikar@pmc-sierra.com>]

Dave Chinner wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 02, 2008 at 04:13:11PM +1000, Nathan Scott wrote:
>   
>> On Wed, 2008-07-02 at 11:05 +0530, Sagar Borikar wrote:
>>     
>>> Unfortunately the architecture is customized mips for which the
>>> standard 
>>> kernel port is
>>> not available  and we have to port the new kernel in order to try
>>> this 
>>> which is why I was
>>> hesitating to do this.
>>>       
>> You can always try the reverse - replace fs/xfs from your mips build
>> tree with the one from the current/a recent kernel.  Theres very few
>> changes in the surrounding kernel code that xfs needs.
>>     
>
> Eric should be able to comment on the pitfalls in doing this having
> tried to backport a 2.6.25 fs/xfs to a 2.6.18 RHEL kernel. Eric -
> any comments?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Dave.
>   
Eric, Could you please let me know about bits and pieces that we need to 
remember while back porting xfs to 2.6.18?
If you share patches which takes care of it, that would be great.

Thanks
Sagar