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DateSat, 07 Apr 2007 23:29:49 +0400
FromEdward Shishkin <>
SubjectRe: REISER4: fix for reiser4_write_extent
Laurent Riffard wrote:

> Le 06.04.2007 00:42, Ignatich a écrit :
>
>> While trying to find the cause of problems with reiser4 in recent 
>> kernels I came across this.
>>
>> Incomplete write handling seem to be missing from 
>> reiser4_write_extent() thanks to reiser4-temp-fix.patch. Strangely, 
>> there is a patch by Edward Shishkin that should address that issue, 
>> but it is missing from -mm tree. Please check.
>>
>>    Max
>>
>
> This patch was added to -mm tree the 14 Dec 2006 (see 
> http://www.mail-archive.com/mm-commits@vger.kernel.org/msg05338.html).
>
> It was then dropped from -mm tree the 05 Mar 2007 (see 
> http://www.mail-archive.com/mm-commits@vger.kernel.org/msg10818.html), 
> with this comment:
>     "This patch was dropped because it is obsolete"
>
> No idea why it was obsolete. Does somebody know ?


This uses not settled interface filemap_copy_from_user_atomic/nonatomic
However, those things should be fixed. I'll prepare the patch a bit later..

Thanks,
Edward.
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