Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 04 Jun 2002 09:54:14 +0200 | From | Martin Dalecki <> | Subject | Re: PATCH/RFC: fix 2.5.20 ramdisk |
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Russell King wrote: > On Tue, Jun 04, 2002 at 10:35:25AM +0200, Jens Axboe wrote: > >>On Mon, Jun 03 2002, Russell King wrote: >> >>>2.5.20 seems to be incapable of executing binaries in a ramdisk-based >>>root filesystem. The ramdisk in question is an ext2fs, with a 1K >>>block size loaded via the compressed ramdisk loader in do_mounts(). >>> >>>It appears that, in the case of a 1K block sized filesystem, we attempt >>>to read two 512-byte sectors into a BIO vector. The first one is copied >>>into the first 512 bytes. The second sector, however, is copied over >>>the first 512 bytes. Obviously not what we really want. >> >>Looks good. > > > Ok, rev. 2, slightly cleaned up: > > --- orig/drivers/block/rd.c Wed May 29 21:40:26 2002 > +++ linux/drivers/block/rd.c Tue Jun 4 09:44:21 2002 > @@ -144,6 +144,7 @@ > { > struct address_space * mapping; > unsigned long index; > + unsigned int vec_offset;
Just a small nit. Shouldn't taht be size_t ?
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