From: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>,
linuxram@us.ibm.com, hugh@veritas.com, dice@mfa.kfki.hu,
vda@port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: data loss in 2.6.9-rc1-mm1
Date: Sat, 28 Aug 2004 20:18:39 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <41305BFF.6040209@yahoo.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040828024504.70407b43.akpm@osdl.org>
Andrew Morton wrote:
> "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl> wrote:
>
>>Well, guys, to make it 100% clear: if I apply the Nick's patch to the
>> 2.6.9-rc1-mm1 tree, it will fix the data loss issue. Is that right?
>
>
> Should do.
It passes test cases that would previously fail here, so consider it
lightly tested. Note that the patch is on top of 2.6.9-rc1 though,
it becomes slightly deranged when applying straight onto mm. So don't
do that.
...
> Or revert
>
> ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.9-rc1/2.6.9-rc1-mm1/broken-out/re-fix-pagecache-reading-off-by-one-cleanup.patch
>
> and then
>
> ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.9-rc1/2.6.9-rc1-mm1/broken-out/re-fix-pagecache-reading-off-by-one.patch
>
>
>
Once you have these backed out mine should apply fine, but it only closes
some performance (not correctness) corner cases that the above patches
attempted to.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-08-28 10:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-08-27 10:55 data loss in 2.6.9-rc1-mm1 Gergely Tamas
2004-08-27 11:05 ` Anton Altaparmakov
2004-08-27 11:40 ` Gergely Tamas
2004-08-27 12:35 ` Fabio Coatti
2004-08-27 11:17 ` Tim Schmielau
2004-08-27 11:43 ` Gergely Tamas
2004-08-27 11:37 ` Mikael Pettersson
2004-08-27 11:55 ` Denis Vlasenko
2004-08-27 13:56 ` Hugh Dickins
2004-08-27 14:18 ` Gergely Tamas
2004-08-27 15:36 ` Fabio Coatti
2004-08-27 18:30 ` Ram Pai
2004-08-27 19:08 ` Hugh Dickins
2004-08-27 21:04 ` Ram Pai
2004-08-28 4:35 ` Nick Piggin
2004-08-28 5:01 ` Ram Pai
2004-08-28 5:42 ` Andrew Morton
2004-08-28 5:54 ` Nick Piggin
2004-08-28 9:44 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2004-08-28 9:45 ` Andrew Morton
2004-08-28 10:18 ` Nick Piggin [this message]
2004-08-28 10:47 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2004-08-28 14:52 ` Hugh Dickins
2004-08-29 1:30 ` Nick Piggin
2004-08-31 6:25 ` Ram Pai
2004-08-31 6:39 ` Andrew Morton
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2004-08-28 12:05 Joachim Bremer
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