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From: Christoph Rohland <cr@sap.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@caldera.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@transmeta.com
Subject: Re: Patch (repost): cramfs memory corruption fix
Date: 08 Jan 2001 15:43:19 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <qwwofxit88o.fsf@sap.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200101081419.PAA26150@ns.caldera.de>
In-Reply-To: Christoph Hellwig's message of "Mon, 8 Jan 2001 15:19:25 +0100"

Hi Christoph,

On Mon, 8 Jan 2001, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> I had a prototype tmpfs in -test10 (ro so) times.  It based on ramfs
> for all the metadata stuff and used the (old) shmfs code for
> swap-backed data.  The only real problem the code had, was that it
> needed a ->allocpage address_space method in place of
> page_cache_alloc() to directly swap-in pages in ->read.  IF anyone
> is interested I could forward port it to 2.4.0 and the new shmfs.

Be aware that there is nothing left from the old shm memory/swap
handling in 2.4.0. It is a copy of ramfs plus additions for swap and
resource limits

If you would be willing to add the read and write functions to the new
coding I would be very happy.

Greetings
		Christoph

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  reply	other threads:[~2001-01-08 14:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-01-07  6:41 Patch (repost): cramfs memory corruption fix Adam J. Richter
2001-01-07 13:53 ` Alan Cox
2001-01-07 19:26   ` Linus Torvalds
2001-01-07 19:42     ` Alan Cox
2001-01-07 19:56       ` Linus Torvalds
2001-01-07 21:11         ` Rik van Riel
2001-01-07 21:20           ` Alan Cox
2001-01-08  6:56           ` Eric W. Biederman
2001-01-07 21:54         ` Chris Wedgwood
2001-01-08 13:37         ` Christoph Rohland
2001-01-08 14:19           ` Christoph Hellwig
2001-01-08 14:43             ` Christoph Rohland [this message]
2001-01-08 14:42           ` Alan Cox
2001-01-08 14:49             ` Christoph Rohland
2001-01-07 20:39       ` David L. Parsley
2001-01-08 18:27         ` Linus Torvalds
2001-01-08  3:46 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-01-08 13:11   ` David Woodhouse
2001-01-08 12:30     ` Shane Nay
2001-01-08 14:34     ` David Woodhouse
2001-01-10 23:30   ` [PATCH] one-liner fix for bforget() honoring BH_Protected; was: " David L. Parsley
2001-01-11  4:23     ` Linus Torvalds

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