Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932697AbXARWzL (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Jan 2007 17:55:11 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932729AbXARWzK (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Jan 2007 17:55:10 -0500 Received: from pne-smtpout4-sn1.fre.skanova.net ([81.228.11.168]:36265 "EHLO pne-smtpout4-sn1.fre.skanova.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932697AbXARWzI (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Jan 2007 17:55:08 -0500 Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2007 00:55:00 +0200 From: Sami Farin <7atbggg02@sneakemail.com> To: David Chinner Cc: Adrian Bunk , Linus Torvalds , Andrew Morton , Linux Kernel Mailing List , xfs-masters@oss.sgi.com Subject: Re: 2.6.20-rc5: known unfixed regressions Message-ID: <20070118225500.GC16110@m.safari.iki.fi> Mail-Followup-To: David Chinner , Adrian Bunk , Linus Torvalds , Andrew Morton , Linux Kernel Mailing List , xfs-masters@oss.sgi.com References: <20070113071125.GG7469@stusta.de> <20070116061502.GP44411608@melbourne.sgi.com> <20070117034329.GW44411608@melbourne.sgi.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070117034329.GW44411608@melbourne.sgi.com> 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: 1248 Lines: 30 On Wed, Jan 17, 2007 at 14:43:29 +1100, David Chinner wrote: ... > > > 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 > > > Status : problem is being discussed > > > > I'm at LCA and been having laptop dramas so the fix is being held up at this > > point. I and trying to test a change right now that adds an optional unmap > > to truncate_inode_pages_range as XFS needs, in some circumstances, to toss > > out dirty pages (with dirty bufferheads) and hence requires truncate semantics > > that are currently missing unmap calls. > > > > Semi-untested patch attached below. > > The patch has run XFSQA for about 24 hours now on my test rig without > triggering any problems. I have also ran this for 24h (in patched 2.6.19.2) and no problems noticed :) -- Do what you love because life is too short for anything else. - 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/