Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | Date | Mon, 1 Mar 2004 12:51:26 -0300 (BRT) | From | Marcelo Tosatti <> | Subject | Re: Ibm Serveraid Problem with 2.4.25 |
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On Mon, 1 Mar 2004, Alain Fauconnet wrote:
> Please followup to the list when you've drawn conclusions about this > issue. > I'm holding a 2.4.25 upgrade of a busy mail server because of this.
We found out the guilty part, its the readahead modifications done by Chuck Lever in -pre1.
The error is harmless though, you can safely move your server to 2.4.25. Its just trying to readahead a page beyond the end device.
The following untested patch on top of 2.4.25 should fix it:
--- mm/filemap.c.orig 2004-03-01 12:47:41.000000000 -0300 +++ mm/filemap.c 2004-03-01 12:48:30.000000000 -0300 @@ -1346,7 +1346,7 @@ while (ahead < max_ahead) { unsigned long ra_index = raend + ahead + 1; - if (ra_index > end_index) + if (ra_index >= end_index) break; if (page_cache_read(filp, ra_index) < 0) break; - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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