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From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: discuss@x86-64.org
Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	nate.diller@gmail.com, torvalds@osdl.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [discuss] Re: [PATCH for 2.6.18] [8/8] MM: Remove rogue readahead printk
Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2006 18:48:56 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200607301848.56121.ak@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1154275941.5784.131.camel@localhost>


> Not necessarily. AFAICS, the spam could be triggered by perfectly
> legitimate activity. For instance, someone on the server may have
> revoked your read permissions to the file, or may have deleted it.

I don't think any of this was the case in the cases I saw it.

It would be probably good to investigate post 2.6.18, but for 2.6.18
itself I think removing the printk was the best short term "fix".

> > Do we know why nfs's readpage isn't bringing the page up to date?
> 
> It may be that other lurking issues were also triggering the printk. For
> instance I know of a couple of corner cases in the krb5 privacy code
> that could result in readpage failing. Those issues are being looked
> into.

I don't use kerberos either.

-Andi

      reply	other threads:[~2006-07-30 17:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-07-29 19:42 [PATCH for 2.6.18] [8/8] MM: Remove rogue readahead printk Andi Kleen
2006-07-29 21:14 ` Trond Myklebust
2006-07-30  1:04   ` Nate Diller
2006-07-30  4:22     ` Trond Myklebust
2006-07-30  6:26       ` Andrew Morton
2006-07-30 16:12         ` Trond Myklebust
2006-07-30 16:48           ` Andi Kleen [this message]

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