Re: Direct I/O bug in kernel

2012-08-10 Thread Hillf Danton
On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 4:53 AM, Victor Meyerson wrote: > I tried that patch, although I had to edit a slightly different line as > dio_bio_alloc was near line 392 instead of 349 in the version of > fs/direct-io.c in my tree. I still got different checksums between the two > files and even dif

Re: Direct I/O bug in kernel

2012-08-09 Thread Victor Meyerson
- Original Message - > From: Hillf Danton > To: Victor Meyerson > Cc: "linux-m...@linux-mips.org" ; Ralf Baechle > ; LKML > Sent: Friday, July 27, 2012 7:47 AM > Subject: Re: Direct I/O bug in kernel > > On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 1:28 AM, Victo

Re: Direct I/O bug in kernel

2012-07-27 Thread Hillf Danton
On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 1:28 AM, Victor Meyerson wrote: > > Still different checksums and I used the same random-file from my first test. > Then try the fix at https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/7/27/54 Good Weekend Hillf -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ker

Re: Direct I/O bug in kernel

2012-07-24 Thread Victor Meyerson
- Original Message - > From: Hillf Danton > To: Victor Meyerson > Cc: "linux-m...@linux-mips.org" ; Ralf Baechle > ; LKML > Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2012 6:04 AM > Subject: Re: Direct I/O bug in kernel > > On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 10:05 AM, Victor Me

Re: Direct I/O bug in kernel

2012-07-24 Thread Hillf Danton
On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 10:05 AM, Victor Meyerson wrote: > Hi, > > I recently found a bug related to direct io in post 3.3 linux kernels. > Fortunately, my hardware (a Cobalt Qube2) is supported by the vanilla kernel > so I did not need additional patch sets to get the machine to boot. I ran