Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932386AbXAIU2r (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Jan 2007 15:28:47 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932387AbXAIU2r (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Jan 2007 15:28:47 -0500 Received: from mailout.stusta.mhn.de ([141.84.69.5]:2860 "HELO mailout.stusta.mhn.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S932386AbXAIU2q (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Jan 2007 15:28:46 -0500 Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2007 21:28:50 +0100 From: Adrian Bunk To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Andrew Morton , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Malte =?iso-8859-1?Q?Schr=F6der?= , reiserfs-dev@namesys.com Subject: Re: 2.6.20-rc4: known unfixed regressions (v2) Message-ID: <20070109202850.GO25007@stusta.de> References: <20070109052510.GG25007@stusta.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1859 Lines: 55 On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 09:58:19AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > On Tue, 9 Jan 2007, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > > > Subject : BUG: at mm/truncate.c:60 cancel_dirty_page() (reiserfs) > > References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/1/7/117 > > Submitter : Malte Schr?der > > Status : unknown > > Adrian, this is also available as > > http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/1/5/308 The latter was in my list as: Subject : BUG: at mm/truncate.c:60 cancel_dirty_page() (XFS) References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/1/5/308 Submitter : Sami Farin <7atbggg02@sneakemail.com> Handled-By : David Chinner Patch : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/1/7/201 Status : patch available >... > So I think this does show some confusion in reiserfs, but it's not > anything new. The only new thing is that the _message_ happens. > > So I don't personally consider this a regression. Just a sign of old and > preexisting confusion that is now uncovered by new code (and it will print > out the scary message at most four times, and then stop complaining about > it. So apart from the scary message, nothing new and bad has really > happened). At least the printing of scary messages is a regression. Unless we want to be buried in bug reports after 2.6.20 got released, the minimum fix is to temporarily remove the WARN_ON(). > Linus cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed - 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/