Messages in this thread | | | From | "Rafael J. Wysocki" <> | Subject | Re: data loss in 2.6.9-rc1-mm1 | Date | Sat, 28 Aug 2004 12:47:57 +0200 |
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On Saturday 28 of August 2004 12:18, Nick Piggin wrote: > Andrew Morton wrote: > > "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl> wrote: > >>Well, guys, to make it 100% clear: if I apply the Nick's patch to the > >> 2.6.9-rc1-mm1 tree, it will fix the data loss issue. Is that right? > > > > Should do. > > It passes test cases that would previously fail here, so consider it > lightly tested. Note that the patch is on top of 2.6.9-rc1 though, > it becomes slightly deranged when applying straight onto mm. So don't > do that. > > .. > > > Or revert > > > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.9-rc1/2 > >.6.9-rc1-mm1/broken-out/re-fix-pagecache-reading-off-by-one-cleanup.patch > > > > and then > > > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.9-rc1/2 > >.6.9-rc1-mm1/broken-out/re-fix-pagecache-reading-off-by-one.patch > > Once you have these backed out mine should apply fine, but it only closes > some performance (not correctness) corner cases that the above patches > attempted to.
OK. Thanks a lot,
RJW
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