Messages in this thread | | | From | Daniel Phillips <> | Subject | Re: htree directory indexing 2.4.18-2 BUG with highmem and also high i/o | Date | Thu, 11 Jul 2002 00:46:23 +0200 |
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On Wednesday 10 July 2002 23:01, Andreas Dilger wrote: > On Jul 09, 2002 23:33 +0200, Marc-Christian Petersen wrote: > > Hi Daniel, > > > > I've found a bug with htree directory indexing patch and > > highmem enabled (64GB). This is with 2.4.18 and htree patch > > 2.4.18-2. Oops appears if accessing an ext2 partition with ls > > or doing "who/w" in the directory of the ext2 partition. > > The ext2 htree patch probably needs to add a "kmap()" and "kunmap()" > in the function that reads a page and scans the directory for the > name it is looking for. I can't be any more specific than this > right now since I only have the ext3 version of this patch, and it > does not have page-cache based directories (it is still using the > buffer cache).
Hi Andreas,
Yes, kmap is utterly not-there for the Ext2 version of the patch. This is one of those uninteresting but altogether essential chores that just needs doing. Sigh.
See you tomorrow.
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