From: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
To: "Jeff V. Merkey" <jmerkey@vger.timpanogas.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, jmerkey@timpanogas.org
Subject: Re: NWFS broken on 2.4.3 -- someone removed WRITERAW
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 00:58:09 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010424005809.Y9357@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010423163725.C1131@vger.timpanogas.org>
In-Reply-To: <20010423163725.C1131@vger.timpanogas.org>; from jmerkey@vger.timpanogas.org on Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 04:37:25PM -0600
On Mon, Apr 23 2001, Jeff V. Merkey wrote:
>
>
> Hey guys,
>
> Whomever removed WRITERAW has broken NWFS. WRITE requests call
> _refile_buffer() after the I/O request and take my locally created
> buffer heads and munge them back into the linux buffer cache, causing
> massive memory corruption in the system. These buffers don't belong
> in Linus' buffer cache, they are owned by my LRU and ll_rw_block
> should not be blindly filing them back into the buffer cache.
>
> Please put something back in to allow me to write without the buffer
> heads always getting filed into Linus' buffer cache. This has
> broken NWFS on 2.4.3 and above.
bh->b_end_io = my_end_io_handler;
submit_bh(WRITE, bh);
Be a happy camper.
--
Jens Axboe
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-04-23 22:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-04-23 22:37 Jeff V. Merkey
2001-04-23 22:58 ` Jens Axboe [this message]
2001-04-23 23:01 ` Jeff V. Merkey
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