Re: 2.6.29 -mm merge plans

Nick Piggin
2009-01-06T05:41:43Z

On Tuesday 06 January 2009 16:27:31 Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
> On Mon, 05 Jan 2009 18:00:33 +0900, KOSAKI Motohiro said:
> > > #
> > > page_fault-retry-with-nopage_retry.patch
> > > page_fault-retry-with-nopage_retry-fix.patch
> > > page_fault-retry-with-nopage_retry-fix-fix.patch
> >
> > I oppose this.
> >
> > Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu reported this patch has bug in
> > "28-rc9-mmotm1219 page_fault-retry-with-nopage_retry.patch hoses xmms"
> > thread.
> >
> > Nobody answer his question yet.
>
> It's still present in -mmotm0105. I'm open to suggestions and any
> debugging/instrumentation patches you might suggest - I'm completely at a
> loss as to how the patch manages to mess up xmms the way it does.

It's pretty soon for such a patch to go in too, IMO, even if there wasn't
a known problem with it.