On Mon, 8 Oct 2007 10:28:43 -0700 Randy Dunlap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Mon, 8 Oct 2007 10:04:56 -0700 Andrew Morton wrote: > > > On Mon, 8 Oct 2007 19:45:08 +0800 "Yan Zheng" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Hi all > > > > > > The test for VM_CAN_NONLINEAR always fails > > > > > > Signed-off-by: Yan Zheng<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > ---- > > > diff -ur linux-2.6.23-rc9/mm/fremap.c linux/mm/fremap.c > > > --- linux-2.6.23-rc9/mm/fremap.c 2007-10-07 15:03:33.000000000 +0800 > > > +++ linux/mm/fremap.c 2007-10-08 19:33:44.000000000 +0800 > > > @@ -160,7 +160,7 @@ > > > if (vma->vm_private_data && !(vma->vm_flags & VM_NONLINEAR)) > > > goto out; > > > > > > - if (!vma->vm_flags & VM_CAN_NONLINEAR) > > > + if (!(vma->vm_flags & VM_CAN_NONLINEAR)) > > > goto out; > > > > > > if (end <= start || start < vma->vm_start || end > vma->vm_end) > > > > Lovely. From this we can deduce that nobody has run remap_file_pages() > > since > > 2.6.23-rc1 and that nobody (including the developer who made that change) > > ran it > > while that change was in -mm. > > I've run rmap-test with -M (use remap_file_pages) and > remap-test from ext3-tools, but not remap_file_pages for some reason. > > I'll now add remap_file_pages soon. > Maybe those other 2 tests aren't strong enough (?). > Or maybe they don't return a non-0 exit status even when they fail... > (I'll check.) Perhaps Yan Zheng can tell us what test was used to demonstrate this? > > > I'm surprise that LTP doesn't have any remap_file_pages() tests. > > quick grep didn't find any for me. Me either. There are a few lying around the place which could be integrated. It would be good if LTP were to have some remap_file_pages() tests (please). As we see here, it is something which we can easily break, and leave broken for some time. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
