Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932132AbXACWBl (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Jan 2007 17:01:41 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932136AbXACWBl (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Jan 2007 17:01:41 -0500 Received: from smtp161.iad.emailsrvr.com ([207.97.245.161]:34122 "EHLO smtp161.iad.emailsrvr.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932132AbXACWBk (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Jan 2007 17:01:40 -0500 Message-ID: <459C2826.8040602@gentoo.org> Date: Wed, 03 Jan 2007 17:03:18 -0500 From: Daniel Drake User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0b1 (X11/20061221) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org CC: torvalds@osdl.org, a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl Subject: Shared mmap'ed page writeback 2.6.18 backport Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 946 Lines: 26 Hi, Has anyone backported the recent shared mmap page writeback fix (7658cc289288b8ae7dd2c2224549a048431222b3) to 2.6.18 or previous? It looks like there will be at least one more 2.6.18-stable release and I'd like to see it fixed there. I don't know enough about the VM layer to understand this further, but the real "problem" in simply backporting the patch seems to be in this part: + if (page_mkclean(page)) + set_page_dirty(page); page_mkclean did not exist in 2.6.18. Is there a simple solution or should backporting the commit with added page_mkclean (d08b3851da41d0ee60851f2c75b118e1f7a5fc89) be considered instead? Hopefully that one has no other dependencies... Thanks! Daniel - 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/