Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 23 Apr 2001 18:59:12 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 23 Apr 2001 18:59:01 -0400 Received: from ns.virtualhost.dk ([195.184.98.160]:37382 "EHLO virtualhost.dk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 23 Apr 2001 18:58:21 -0400 Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 00:58:09 +0200 From: Jens Axboe To: "Jeff V. Merkey" Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, jmerkey@timpanogas.org Subject: Re: NWFS broken on 2.4.3 -- someone removed WRITERAW Message-ID: <20010424005809.Y9357@suse.de> In-Reply-To: <20010423163725.C1131@vger.timpanogas.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20010423163725.C1131@vger.timpanogas.org>; from jmerkey@vger.timpanogas.org on Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 04:37:25PM -0600 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/