Re: data loss in 2.6.9-rc1-mm1

["Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>]

On Saturday 28 of August 2004 12:18, Nick Piggin wrote:
> Andrew Morton wrote:
> > "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl> wrote:
> >>Well, guys, to make it 100% clear: if I apply the Nick's patch to the
> >> 2.6.9-rc1-mm1 tree, it will fix the data loss issue.  Is that right?
> >
> > Should do.
>
> It passes test cases that would previously fail here, so consider it
> lightly tested. Note that the patch is on top of 2.6.9-rc1 though,
> it becomes slightly deranged when applying straight onto mm. So don't
> do that.
>
> ..
>
> >  Or revert
> >
> > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.9-rc1/2
> >.6.9-rc1-mm1/broken-out/re-fix-pagecache-reading-off-by-one-cleanup.patch
> >
> > and then
> >
> > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.9-rc1/2
> >.6.9-rc1-mm1/broken-out/re-fix-pagecache-reading-off-by-one.patch
>
> Once you have these backed out mine should apply fine, but it only closes
> some performance (not correctness) corner cases that the above patches
> attempted to.

OK.  Thanks a lot,

RJW

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