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Date: Tue, 04 Jul 2006 11:06:56 -0400
From: Ben Collins <bcollins@ubuntu.com>
Subject: Re: [Ubuntu PATCH] fix VFS nr_files accounting
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On Mon, 2006-07-03 at 23:50 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Mon, 03 Jul 2006 13:46:57 -0700
> Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > lkml discussion: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/385438/focus=385478
> > 
> > Already in -mm?
> > 
> > From: Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com>
> > 
> > Ubuntu patch location:
> > http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/bcollins/ubuntu-dapper.git;a=commitdiff;h=5ce2ed3a63172c6ce0b97069e449960c2d538623
> > 
> 
> hm.  This is actually a reversion of
> 529bf6be5c04f2e869d07bfdb122e9fd98ade714, so it presumably reintroduces the
> problem discussed in that lkml thread.
> 
> Ben, what's the story here?

This was pulled in to try to fix some problems we were seeing on
sparc64. However, this backported patch broke other architectures (I
think x86_64 wouldn't even boot), so was reverted.

I can't remember any more details than that.

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