Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 20 Dec 2006 22:11:42 +0000 | From | Russell King <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] mm: fix page_mkclean_one (was: 2.6.19 file content corruption on ext3) |
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On Wed, Dec 20, 2006 at 06:03:23PM +0100, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > * Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> [2006-12-20 14:56]: > > page_mkclean_one() fix > > This patch doesn't fix my problem (apt segfaults on ARM because its > database is corrupted).
Are you using IDE in PIO mode? If so, the bug probably lies there.
As I've said repeatedly when asked by IDE folk to test their PIO-based cache coherency fixes, I am unable to reproduce the bug, ergo I am unable to test the fix.
(Some people, such as Jeff Garzik to name names, took that as me being entirely unreasonable and un-cooperative. But consider carefully - how can _anyone_ test something that they can't produce. I consider Jeff's comments extremely very childish in that respect.)
Hence, as far as I'm aware, Linux on PIO-based IDE ARM hardware remains utterly *unsafe*.
Sorry.
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