Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964848AbXADNRz (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Jan 2007 08:17:55 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964847AbXADNRz (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Jan 2007 08:17:55 -0500 Received: from aa015msg.fastweb.it ([213.140.2.82]:60050 "EHLO aa015msg.fastweb.it" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964848AbXADNRy (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Jan 2007 08:17:54 -0500 Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2007 14:17:43 +0100 From: Andrea Gelmini To: Nick Piggin Cc: Linus Torvalds , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: VM: Fix nasty and subtle race in shared mmap'ed page writeback Message-ID: <20070104131743.GD28470@gelma.net> References: <200612291859.kBTIx2kq031961@hera.kernel.org> <20061229224309.GA23445@gelma.net> <459734CE.1090001@yahoo.com.au> <20061231135031.GC23445@gelma.net> <459C7B24.8080008@yahoo.com.au> <459C8B86.2050905@yahoo.com.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <459C8B86.2050905@yahoo.com.au> 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: 638 Lines: 15 On Thu, Jan 04, 2007 at 04:07:18PM +1100, Nick Piggin wrote: > But the patch that Andrea was pointing to was your last patch (The Fix), > which stopped page_mkclean caller throwing out dirty bits. You probably > didn't see that in the mail I cc'ed you on. well, I pointed at that patch for reply, but as I wrote in my first mail, I was using 2.6.20-rc2-git1. thank a lot for your time, gelma - 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/