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SubjectRe: kernel BUG at lib/radix-tree.c:473!
On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 3:54 AM, Ian Campbell <ijc@hellion.org.uk> wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-08-18 at 11:32 +1000, Nick Piggin wrote:
>> On Monday 18 August 2008 02:19, Ian Campbell wrote:
>> > FWIW the patch below apparently makes it work for me, but I'm not going
>> > to pretend I follow what's going on, why or what else it breaks ;-)
>>
>> I think Iwould prefer fs_defio to use its own set_page_dirty
>> function. __set_page_dirty_no_writeback is supposed to be used
>> on pagecache, by filesystems.
>
> fbdefio: add set_page_dirty handler to deferred IO FB
>
> Fixes kernel BUG at lib/radix-tree.c:473.
>
> Previously the handler was incidentally provided by tmpfs but this was
> removed with:
>
> commit 14fcc23fdc78e9d32372553ccf21758a9bd56fa1
> Author: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
> Date: Mon Jul 28 15:46:19 2008 -0700
>
> tmpfs: fix kernel BUG in shmem_delete_inode
>
> relying on this behaviour was incorrect in any case and the BUG
> also appeared when the device node was on an ext3 filesystem.
>
> Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ijc@hellion.org.uk>
> Cc: Jaya Kumar <jayakumar.lkml@gmail.com>
> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@saeurebad.de>
> Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
> Cc: Kel Modderman <kel@otaku42.de>
> Cc: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>

Acked-by: Jaya Kumar <jayakumar.lkml@gmail.com>

Thanks,
jaya


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