From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 22 May 2002 04:54:43 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 22 May 2002 04:54:42 -0400 Received: from imladris.infradead.org ([194.205.184.45]:14347 "EHLO phoenix.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 22 May 2002 04:54:42 -0400 Date: Wed, 22 May 2002 09:54:40 +0100 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Dan Kegel Cc: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" Subject: Re: khttpd and tmpfs don't get along? Message-ID: <20020522095440.A13744@infradead.org> Mail-Followup-To: Christoph Hellwig , Dan Kegel , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" In-Reply-To: <3CEAF6F2.BB70395D@kegel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 06:40:02PM -0700, Dan Kegel wrote: > I've found that khttpd tends to oops when used with tmpfs. > The oops tracebacks are not especially informative. > So far, I've only verified this with ppc, but I should be > able to verify it with x86 soon. That's because it abuses do_generic_file_read. It' the same design mistake that also makes loop fail on tmpfs - do_generic_file_read should never have been exported from filemap.c..