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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Dan Kegel <dank@kegel.com>
Cc: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: khttpd and tmpfs don't get along?
Date: Wed, 22 May 2002 09:54:40 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020522095440.A13744@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3CEAF6F2.BB70395D@kegel.com>

On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 06:40:02PM -0700, Dan Kegel wrote:
> I've found that khttpd tends to oops when used with tmpfs.
> The oops tracebacks are not especially informative.
> So far, I've only verified this with ppc, but I should be
> able to verify it with x86 soon.

That's because it abuses do_generic_file_read.  It' the same design mistake
that also makes loop fail on tmpfs - do_generic_file_read should never have
been exported from filemap.c..


  reply	other threads:[~2002-05-22  8:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-05-22  1:40 khttpd and tmpfs don't get along? Dan Kegel
2002-05-22  8:54 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2002-05-22 19:20   ` Dan Kegel
2002-05-22 19:33     ` Christoph Hellwig

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