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Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 10:45:43 +0100 (CET)
From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de>
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To: Terje Dalen <t.dalen@no.parkairsystems.com>
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Subject: Re: PROBLEM:  Kernel link problem (block.o)
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On Tue, 20 Nov 2001, Terje Dalen wrote:

> Hi,

Hi Terje,

>...
> drivers/block/block.o: In function `lo_send':
> drivers/block/block.o(.text+0xb2e9): undefined reference to
> `deactivate_page'
> drivers/block/block.o(.text+0xb325): undefined reference to
> `deactivate_page'
>
>
> I can see from in the changelog that the swap.h have been changed and the
> deactivate_page function has been removed. I guess someone forgot to update
> the loop.c file. Is there a patch available for the correction of loop.c?
>...

This is a known bug.

The following patch fixes it:

--- linux-2.4.14-broken/drivers/block/loop.c	Thu Oct 25 13:58:34 2001
+++ linux-2.4.14/drivers/block/loop.c	Mon Nov  5 17:06:08 2001
@@ -207,7 +207,6 @@
 		index++;
 		pos += size;
 		UnlockPage(page);
-		deactivate_page(page);
 		page_cache_release(page);
 	}
 	return 0;
@@ -218,7 +217,6 @@
 	kunmap(page);
 unlock:
 	UnlockPage(page);
-	deactivate_page(page);
 	page_cache_release(page);
 fail:
 	return -1;


> Best regards
> Terje

cu
Adrian

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