Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 04 Jul 2006 11:06:56 -0400 | From | Ben Collins <> | Subject | Re: [Ubuntu PATCH] fix VFS nr_files accounting |
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On Mon, 2006-07-03 at 23:50 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Mon, 03 Jul 2006 13:46:57 -0700 > Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> wrote: > > > > > lkml discussion: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/385438/focus=385478 > > > > Already in -mm? > > > > From: Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com> > > > > Ubuntu patch location: > > http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/bcollins/ubuntu-dapper.git;a=commitdiff;h=5ce2ed3a63172c6ce0b97069e449960c2d538623 > > > > hm. This is actually a reversion of > 529bf6be5c04f2e869d07bfdb122e9fd98ade714, so it presumably reintroduces the > problem discussed in that lkml thread. > > Ben, what's the story here?
This was pulled in to try to fix some problems we were seeing on sparc64. However, this backported patch broke other architectures (I think x86_64 wouldn't even boot), so was reverted.
I can't remember any more details than that.
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