Re: 2.6.4-mm1

Jens Axboe
2004-03-11T08:27:28Z

On Wed, Mar 10 2004, Andrew Morton wrote:
> - Major surgery against the pagecache, radix-tree and writeback code. This
> work is to address the O_DIRECT-vs-buffered data exposure horrors which
> we've been struggling with for months.

[snip]

Looks extremely kick ass! mpage is has a left-over spin_unlock in there
though, I need this to boot:

--- /opt/kernel/linux-2.6.4-mm1/fs/mpage.c 2004-03-11 09:10:02.070434880 +0100
+++ fs/mpage.c 2004-03-11 09:23:19.718019755 +0100
@@ -672,7 +672,6 @@
}
pagevec_release(&pvec);
}
- spin_unlock_irq(&mapping->tree_lock);
if (bio)
mpage_bio_submit(WRITE, bio);
return ret;

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Jens Axboe