Re: [PATCH] radix-tree pagecache for 2.4.19-pre2-ac2

Mike Fedyk
2002-03-04T05:12:52Z

On Sun, Mar 03, 2002 at 11:55:57PM -0500, Ed Tomlinson wrote:
> On March 3, 2002 03:03 pm, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > I have uploaded an updated version of the radix-tree pagecache patch
> > against 2.4.19-pre2-ac2. News in this release:
> >
> > * fix a deadlock when vmtruncate takes i_shared_lock twice by introducing
> > a new mapping->page_lock that mutexes mapping->page_tree. (akpm)
> > * move setting of page->flags back out of move_to/from_swap_cache. (akpm)
> > * put back lost page state settings in shmem_unuse_inode. (akpm)
> > * get rid of remove_page_from_inode_queue - there was only one caller. (me)
> > * replace add_page_to_inode_queue with ___add_to_page_cache. (me)
> >
> > Please give it some serious beating while I try to get 2.5 working and
> > port the patch over 8)
>
> Got this after a couple of hours with pre2-ac2+preempth+radixtree.
>

Can you try again without preempt?