Re: 2.6.24-rc8-git1: Reported regressions from 2.6.23

[Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>]

On Thu, 2008-01-17 at 16:18 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 17 Jan 2008, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > 
> > There are thirteen regressions for which we have patches but they aren't
> > merged.  That seems rather high.
> 
> I think a number of them have been merged, or the thing that caused them 
> reverted. For example.
> 
> > > Subject		: [2.6.24-rc6] pdflush still stuck in D state regression
> > > Submitter	: "Tvrtko A. Ursulin" <tvrtko@ursulin.net>
> > > Date		: 2007-11-02 09:54
> > > References	: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9291
> > > Handled-By	: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> > > Patch		: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/attachment.cgi?id=14219&action=view
> 
> Isn't this the same write-back-related thing, reverted by 
> c23f72cae9523d29ff94eec8f30ccbdaf234b20e?

The bug originally described a problem on reiserfs, which I believe is
fixed.  A second problem was found on jfs, which probably should have
resulted in a new bug being opened.  The jfs patch is not in mainline
yet.  There are 3 jfs bug fixes ready for mainline in:
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/shaggy/jfs-2.6.git
for-linus

Alternately, you could pull just
29a424f28390752a4ca2349633aaacc6be494db5 from that tree.  (Can you do
this without a tag?)  It is the first unmerged patch in the tree.

Thanks,
Shaggy
-- 
David Kleikamp
IBM Linux Technology Center