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Date: Mon, 25 Dec 2000 18:20:15 -0800 (PST)
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
To: "Marco d'Itri" <md@Linux.IT>
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Subject: Re: innd mmap bug in 2.4.0-test12
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On Mon, 25 Dec 2000, Marco d'Itri wrote:
>
>  >Do you get any messages? I don't think you will, but it should be tested.
>
> I read you found the real cause so that may be bogus, but I have got two
> messages while booting. The first showed up while doing the fsck of a 6
> GB file systems and killed the process (fscks of smaller partitions
> completed successfully), the second occured while initializing
> /dev/random and left an unkillable dd process and a stuck boot process
> (I gathered this info with sysrq).

I'd still love to get the trace for these. I think I have a handle on the
problems, but it would stil be helpful - dropping a dirty page really
shouldn't happen except for the swap cache (and that should have been
plugged by adding the ClearPageDirty()).

		Linus

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