From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965737AbXDGTaF (ORCPT ); Sat, 7 Apr 2007 15:30:05 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S966304AbXDGTaF (ORCPT ); Sat, 7 Apr 2007 15:30:05 -0400 Received: from mail.zelnet.ru ([80.92.97.13]:53463 "EHLO mail.zelnet.ru" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965737AbXDGTaD (ORCPT ); Sat, 7 Apr 2007 15:30:03 -0400 Message-ID: <4617F12D.8080905@namesys.com> Date: Sat, 07 Apr 2007 23:29:49 +0400 From: Edward Shishkin User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.13) Gecko/20060411 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Laurent Riffard CC: Ignatich , reiserfs-list@namesys.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: REISER4: fix for reiser4_write_extent References: <46157B5B.5000602@gmail.com> <461793E4.5040706@free.fr> In-Reply-To: <461793E4.5040706@free.fr> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.86.0.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Laurent Riffard wrote: > Le 06.04.2007 00:42, Ignatich a écrit : > >> While trying to find the cause of problems with reiser4 in recent >> kernels I came across this. >> >> Incomplete write handling seem to be missing from >> reiser4_write_extent() thanks to reiser4-temp-fix.patch. Strangely, >> there is a patch by Edward Shishkin that should address that issue, >> but it is missing from -mm tree. Please check. >> >> Max >> > > This patch was added to -mm tree the 14 Dec 2006 (see > http://www.mail-archive.com/mm-commits@vger.kernel.org/msg05338.html). > > It was then dropped from -mm tree the 05 Mar 2007 (see > http://www.mail-archive.com/mm-commits@vger.kernel.org/msg10818.html), > with this comment: > "This patch was dropped because it is obsolete" > > No idea why it was obsolete. Does somebody know ? This uses not settled interface filemap_copy_from_user_atomic/nonatomic However, those things should be fixed. I'll prepare the patch a bit later.. Thanks, Edward.