From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] Preserve the dirty bit in init_page_buffers
Date: Thu, 31 May 2007 08:55:56 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070531085556.11649c70.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m164695hqm.fsf@ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com>
On Thu, 31 May 2007 05:56:33 -0600 ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) wrote:
> >> I suspect that is a pretty rare case but it does indeed seem to exist
> >> as a problem.
> >
> > I think so too. But either we have some misunderstanding of the
> > codepaths involved, or the author of the comments there didn't
> > consider this case, so...
>
> Do someone needs to stand up and write the additional patches.
> Do we have a maintainer for fs/buffer.c?
me, if any one, I guess. But I haven't really been following
this discussion - too long and slow ;) 'twould be good if you
could reprise it all in one email, presumably in diff -u form..
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-05-31 15:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-05-22 2:31 [PATCH 1/3] Preserve the dirty bit in init_page_buffers Eric W. Biederman
2007-05-22 2:36 ` [PATCH 2/3] rd: Mark ramdisk buffer heads dirty in ramdisk_set_page_dirty Eric W. Biederman
2007-05-22 2:40 ` [PATCH 3/3] rd: Simplify by using the same helper functions in libfs Eric W. Biederman
2007-05-28 4:09 ` [PATCH 1/3] Preserve the dirty bit in init_page_buffers Nick Piggin
2007-05-28 4:30 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-05-28 4:54 ` Nick Piggin
2007-05-28 4:59 ` Nick Piggin
2007-05-28 14:05 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-05-29 5:14 ` Nick Piggin
2007-05-29 5:28 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-05-31 11:56 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-05-31 15:55 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2007-05-31 16:40 ` [PATCH] rd: Remove ramdisk_set_page_dirty Eric W. Biederman
2007-05-31 16:43 ` [PATCH] buffer: Kill old incorrect? comment Eric W. Biederman
2007-05-28 13:52 ` [PATCH 1/3] Preserve the dirty bit in init_page_buffers Eric W. Biederman
2007-05-28 6:37 ` Nick Piggin
2007-05-28 13:58 ` Eric W. Biederman
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