On Wed, Jan 17, 2007 at 14:43:29 +1100, David Chinner wrote: ... > > > Subject : BUG: at mm/truncate.c:60 cancel_dirty_page() (XFS) > > > References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/1/5/308 > > > Submitter : Sami Farin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Handled-By : David Chinner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Status : problem is being discussed > > > > I'm at LCA and been having laptop dramas so the fix is being held up at this > > point. I and trying to test a change right now that adds an optional unmap > > to truncate_inode_pages_range as XFS needs, in some circumstances, to toss > > out dirty pages (with dirty bufferheads) and hence requires truncate > > semantics > > that are currently missing unmap calls. > > > > Semi-untested patch attached below. > > The patch has run XFSQA for about 24 hours now on my test rig without > triggering any problems.
I have also ran this for 24h (in patched 2.6.19.2) and no problems noticed :) -- Do what you love because life is too short for anything else. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
