Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755077AbWL2WtH (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 Dec 2006 17:49:07 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755082AbWL2WtH (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 Dec 2006 17:49:07 -0500 Received: from aa017msg.fastweb.it ([213.140.2.84]:39923 "EHLO aa017msg.fastweb.it" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755077AbWL2WtG (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 Dec 2006 17:49:06 -0500 X-Greylist: delayed 352 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Fri, 29 Dec 2006 17:49:05 EST Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2006 23:43:09 +0100 From: Andrea Gelmini To: Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: VM: Fix nasty and subtle race in shared mmap'ed page writeback Message-ID: <20061229224309.GA23445@gelma.net> References: <200612291859.kBTIx2kq031961@hera.kernel.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=unknown-8bit Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <200612291859.kBTIx2kq031961@hera.kernel.org> Weight: 77.8 kg (171.51964 lbs) User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.12-2006-07-14 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1293 Lines: 29 On Fri, Dec 29, 2006 at 06:59:02PM +0000, Linux Kernel Mailing List wrote: > Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=7658cc289288b8ae7dd2c2224549a048431222b3 > Commit: 7658cc289288b8ae7dd2c2224549a048431222b3 > Parent: 3bf8ba38f38d3647368e4edcf7d019f9f8d9184a > Author: Linus Torvalds > AuthorDate: Fri Dec 29 10:00:58 2006 -0800 > Committer: Linus Torvalds > CommitDate: Fri Dec 29 10:00:58 2006 -0800 > > VM: Fix nasty and subtle race in shared mmap'ed page writeback With 2.6.20-rc2-git1, which contain this patch, I have no more Berkeley DB corruption with Klibido.? I'm afraid a lot of software project switched to Sqlite,? from BDB,? because the bug this patch fix (ie. http://bogofilter.sourceforge.net/). I've also thought, since years, it was an userland problem. Ciao, gelma ------------------- ? http://klibido.sourceforge.net/ ? http://www.sqlite.org/ ? http://www.oracle.com/database/berkeley-db/index.html - 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/