Re: 2.6.19-rc2-mm1

Carsten Otte
2006-10-20T13:40:21Z

Andrew Morton wrote:

> On Tue, 17 Oct 2006 17:45:29 +0200
> Cedric Le Goater <clg@fr.ibm.com> wrote:
>
>
>>> +mm-fix-pagecache-write-deadlocks.patch
>>>
> <looks>
>
> I think it might actually be that simple. I expected a lot more fuss than
> that.
>
>
This actually makes it compile&run again. Therefore I vote for inclusion.
I will look into Nick's suggestion of replacing it by a non-atomic
variant later on, after fixing a page refcounting issue with xip and cow
that was introduced by Nicks changes.
Acked-by: Carsten Otte <cotte@de.ibm.com>