Re: Reiser4: Compilation Error on 2.6.28.1_[Scanned]

[Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@googlemail.com>]

On Sonntag 25 Januar 2009, Edward Shishkin wrote:
> Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
> > On Montag 19 Januar 2009, Edward Shishkin wrote:
> >> Ingo Bormuth wrote:
> >>> Reiser4-for-2.6.28 does apply but fails to compile on
> >>> vanilla-2.6.28.1 due to the following commit:
> >>>
> >>> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=comm
> >>>it diff;h=54566b2c1594c2326a645a3551f9d989f7ba3c5e
> >>>
> >>> Attached is a tiny fix which works fine here.
> >>
> >> yeah, with your patch it will act as earlier,
> >> however, -mm guys decided to get rig of __GFP_FS flag:
> >> http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/fs-symlink-write_begin-
> >>all ocation-context-fix-reiser4-fix.patch it seems they found it
> >> deadlocky..
> >
> > so without Ingo Bormuth's patch you can't use r4 with 2.6.28.1
>
> Ingo's patch is against -rc
>
> >  and later and
> > with his patch there is a risk of deadlocks?
>
> Not sure.
> Nobody complained so far..

hm, I had two lockups with 2.6.28 and your r4 patch so far. Suddenly the box 
only responded to sysrq - and on reboot the software raid5 with my r4 
partitions on needed a resync. Might be related or not. I am back to 2.6.27 
which never showed any misbehaviour.

Glück Auf,
Volker

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