From: Anton Blanchard <anton@linuxcare.com.au>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
Cc: Chris Wedgwood <cw@f00f.org>, "Marco d'Itri" <md@Linux.IT>,
Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: innd mmap bug in 2.4.0-test12
Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2000 21:29:31 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20001227212930.A445@linuxcare.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20001226175057.A12275@metastasis.f00f.org> <Pine.LNX.4.10.10012252135390.7059-100000@penguin.transmeta.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10012252135390.7059-100000@penguin.transmeta.com>; from torvalds@transmeta.com on Mon, Dec 25, 2000 at 09:37:05PM -0800
> This all only matters to things that do shared writable mmap's.
>
> Almost nothing does that. innd is (sadly) the only regular thing that uses
> this, which is why it's always innd that breaks, even if everything else
> works.
btw samba 2.2 makes extensive use of shared writable mmaps (well it uses tdb
which uses shared writable mmaps). In fact it picked up a bug with virtual
aliasing of shared writable mmaps on sparc64 recently.
Anton
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Thread overview: 62+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-12-24 8:28 innd mmap bug in 2.4.0-test12 Marco d'Itri
2000-12-24 13:05 ` Jeff Lightfoot
[not found] ` <Pine.GSO.4.21.0012240330370.13109-100000@weyl.math.psu.edu>
2000-12-24 16:00 ` Marco d'Itri
2000-12-24 17:57 ` Linus Torvalds
2000-12-24 18:10 ` Linus Torvalds
2000-12-24 19:19 ` Dietmar Kling
2000-12-24 23:23 ` Zlatko Calusic
2000-12-25 2:26 ` Dan Aloni
2000-12-27 19:20 ` Rik van Riel
2000-12-27 22:04 ` Zlatko Calusic
[not found] ` <3A4A758F.98EBC605@innominate.de>
2000-12-28 14:29 ` Daniel Phillips
2000-12-28 18:38 ` [PATCH] " Daniel Phillips
2000-12-28 18:54 ` Linus Torvalds
2000-12-28 19:17 ` Daniel Phillips
2000-12-28 20:36 ` Daniel Phillips
2000-12-28 20:42 ` Linus Torvalds
2000-12-28 23:50 ` Daniel Phillips
2000-12-27 23:41 ` Linus Torvalds
2000-12-27 23:55 ` Philipp Rumpf
2000-12-28 0:27 ` Linus Torvalds
2000-12-28 3:00 ` Chris Wedgwood
2000-12-28 5:06 ` Ari Heitner
2000-12-28 6:01 ` Chris Wedgwood
2000-12-28 12:14 ` Alan Cox
2000-12-28 21:36 ` Mo McKinlay
2000-12-28 18:50 ` Linus Torvalds
2000-12-28 18:57 ` Alan Cox
2000-12-29 8:03 ` innd mmap bug in 2.4.0-test12 (UNIMPORTANT) Pau
2000-12-29 1:32 ` innd mmap bug in 2.4.0-test12 Chris Wedgwood
2000-12-29 9:39 ` Christoph Rohland
2000-12-28 15:03 ` Daniel Phillips
2000-12-28 15:12 ` Rik van Riel
2000-12-28 15:15 ` Daniel Phillips
2000-12-28 17:44 ` Chris Mason
2000-12-28 17:51 ` Rik van Riel
2000-12-28 18:18 ` Chris Mason
2000-12-28 17:49 ` Linus Torvalds
2000-12-28 0:43 ` Dan Aloni
2000-12-28 1:41 ` Dan Aloni
2000-12-28 14:14 ` Rik van Riel
2000-12-28 14:33 ` Rik van Riel
2000-12-28 16:03 ` Daniel Phillips
2000-12-28 17:47 ` Linus Torvalds
2000-12-28 18:02 ` Rik van Riel
2000-12-26 23:02 ` Michael Peddemors
2000-12-27 18:39 ` Alan Cox
2000-12-24 20:07 ` Daniel Phillips
2000-12-24 22:08 ` Linus Torvalds
2000-12-24 23:53 ` Marco d'Itri
2000-12-25 3:10 ` Augusto César Radtke
2000-12-25 9:19 ` Linus Torvalds
2000-12-25 9:42 ` Linus Torvalds
2000-12-26 1:45 ` Alan Cox
2000-12-26 18:17 ` Linus Torvalds
2000-12-26 4:50 ` Chris Wedgwood
2000-12-26 5:26 ` controllerless pci device support Eric Shattow
2000-12-27 0:39 ` Alan Cox
2000-12-26 5:37 ` innd mmap bug in 2.4.0-test12 Linus Torvalds
2000-12-27 10:29 ` Anton Blanchard [this message]
2001-01-04 20:44 ` Ralf Gerbig
2000-12-25 18:44 ` Marco d'Itri
2000-12-26 2:20 ` Linus Torvalds
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