Re: 2.6.29 -mm merge plans

Ying Han
2009-01-12T04:18:21Z

Thank you Valdis for your work and that is a really good news. :-)

--Ying

On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 8:18 PM, <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu> wrote:
> On Wed, 07 Jan 2009 20:18:34 PST, Ying Han said:
>> Hi Valdis:
>> Please try this fix and i tested on ubunbu8.10 with xmms and it helps.
>
> Sorry for the long delay in testing, I was offline Wed-Friday taking some
> much-needed leave time.
>
>> diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/fault.c b/arch/x86/mm/fault.c
>> index 9e268b6..f4bbd9b 100644
>> --- a/arch/x86/mm/fault.c
>> +++ b/arch/x86/mm/fault.c
>
> This didn't apply cleanly to a mmotm-0105 tree, but did apply cleanly
> with the following 3 patches reverted and then this new patch applied.
>
> page_fault-retry-with-nopage_retry.patch
> page_fault-retry-with-nopage_retry-fix.patch
> page_fault-retry-with-nopage_retry-fix-fix.patch
>
> not surprising, since it looks like this patch is a replacement for all 3. It
> built and booted nicely, and xmms on the resulting kernel behaves properly.
>
> Congrats on being able to debug the problem based on my fairly weird bug
> report. ;)
>