Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | From | Thomas Schlichter <> | Subject | Re: [BUG] heavy disk access sometimes freezes 2.5.73-mm[123] | Date | Mon, 7 Jul 2003 17:58:44 +0200 |
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On Monday 07 July 2003 05:30, Barry K. Nathan wrote: > On Sun, Jul 06, 2003 at 07:37:22PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > Nick Piggin <piggin@cyberone.com.au> wrote: > > > > Barry says the problem started with 2.5.73-mm1. There was a reiserfs > > patch added in that kernel. > > > > Does a `patch -R' of this fix it up? > > [patch snipped] > > Yes, backing that patch out fixes it.
I had similar problems with my reiserfs root FS. For me backing out only the second chunk of the patch made it, too. I've attached the patch I used for that. If someone sees something really bad I'm doing with this please write, because I'm playing with my root FS... ;-)
Best regards Thomas Schlichter diff -u linux-2.5.74-mm2/fs/reiserfs/tail_conversion.c.orig linux-2.5.74-mm2/fs/reiserfs/tail_conversion.c --- linux-2.5.74-mm2/fs/reiserfs/tail_conversion.c.orig 2003-06-23 09:26:10.000000000 -0700 +++ linux-2.5.74-mm2/fs/reiserfs/tail_conversion.c 2003-06-23 09:26:10.000000000 -0700 @@ -190,9 +190,6 @@ unmap_buffers(struct page *page, loff_t } bh = next ; } while (bh != head) ; - if ( PAGE_SIZE == bh->b_size ) { - ClearPageDirty(page); - } } } } | |