Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 04 Jul 2014 00:05:23 +0530 | From | Raghavendra K T <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] mm readahead: Fix sys_readahead breakage by reverting 2MB limit (bug 79111) |
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On 07/03/2014 11:52 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Thu, Jul 3, 2014 at 11:11 AM, Raghavendra K T > <raghavendra.kt@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote: >>> >>> If this comes from some man-page, >> >> Yes it is. > > Ok, googling actually finds a fairly recent patch to fix it > > http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-mm/msg70517.html > > and several much older "that's not true" comments.
Thanks. I had missed that.
> > That said, the bugzilla entry you mentioned does mention "can't boot > 3.14 now". I'm not sure what the meaning of that sentence is, though. > Does it mean "can't boot 3.14 to test it because the machine is busy", > or is it a typo and really meant 3.15, and that some bootup script > *depended* on readahead()? I don't know. It seems strange.
I think your guess is right, it meant to say "I can't boot it anymore since I already upgraded to 3.15", because eventually bootup script (if it is) should have to read IIUC.
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