From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757496AbXEaP4M (ORCPT ); Thu, 31 May 2007 11:56:12 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752853AbXEaPz6 (ORCPT ); Thu, 31 May 2007 11:55:58 -0400 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([207.189.120.13]:47006 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752836AbXEaPz6 (ORCPT ); Thu, 31 May 2007 11:55:58 -0400 Date: Thu, 31 May 2007 08:55:56 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) Cc: Nick Piggin , Linus Torvalds , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] Preserve the dirty bit in init_page_buffers Message-Id: <20070531085556.11649c70.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: References: <465A55E7.50904@yahoo.com.au> <465A6078.6010804@yahoo.com.au> <465A6197.5010402@yahoo.com.au> <465BB6C2.7050704@yahoo.com.au> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.4.1 (GTK+ 2.8.17; x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 31 May 2007 05:56:33 -0600 ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) wrote: > >> I suspect that is a pretty rare case but it does indeed seem to exist > >> as a problem. > > > > I think so too. But either we have some misunderstanding of the > > codepaths involved, or the author of the comments there didn't > > consider this case, so... > > Do someone needs to stand up and write the additional patches. > Do we have a maintainer for fs/buffer.c? me, if any one, I guess. But I haven't really been following this discussion - too long and slow ;) 'twould be good if you could reprise it all in one email, presumably in diff -u form..