Re: Kernel bug: Bad page state: related to generic symlink code and mmap

Anton Altaparmakov
2005-08-19T21:39:13Z

On Fri, 19 Aug 2005, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Fri, 19 Aug 2005, Anton Altaparmakov wrote:
> > It does disable link caching. But I didn't make this up. This is exactly
> > what smbfs uses. I just copied smbfs given ncpfs copies almost everything
> > smbfs does anyway...
>
> Can you test whether the untested test-patch I sent out seems to work for
> your case that bugs out? You'll probably get a few new "initialization
> from incompatible pointer type" warnings, but I do believe that they
> should be harmless at least on normal architectures.

Yes, sure. I have applied your patch to our 2.6.11.4 tree (with the one
liner change I emailed you just now) and have kicked off a compile. I am
afraid the actual testing will have to wait for tomorrow as I was actually
on the way to bed and the make modules is taking forever or at least
longer than I can keep my eyes open...

Best regards,

Anton
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