Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751581AbXA2OeQ (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 Jan 2007 09:34:16 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751584AbXA2OeQ (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 Jan 2007 09:34:16 -0500 Received: from stat-62-123-231-21.atlanet.it ([62.123.231.21]:48410 "EHLO ns.studiotreccani.com" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751575AbXA2OeP (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 Jan 2007 09:34:15 -0500 X-Greylist: delayed 1528 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Mon, 29 Jan 2007 09:34:15 EST Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2007 15:08:44 +0100 From: Andrea Gelmini To: Peter Zijlstra Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: VM: Fix nasty and subtle race in shared mmap'ed page writeback Message-ID: <20070129140844.GE8271@gelma.net> References: <459C7B24.8080008@yahoo.com.au> <20070103214121.997be3e6.akpm@osdl.org> <459C98BF.5080409@yahoo.com.au> <20070104131612.GC28470@gelma.net> <459DE3C6.20302@yahoo.com.au> <20070110135453.GH7947@gelma.net> <1168507298.26496.18.camel@twins> <20070112003955.GH4553@gelma.net> <1169457039.2639.17.camel@taijtu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1169457039.2639.17.camel@taijtu> Weight: 75 kg (165.346697 lbs) 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: 799 Lines: 23 On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 10:10:39AM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > On Fri, 2007-01-12 at 01:39 +0100, Andrea Gelmini wrote: > > Hi, > > I can't do the test 'till next week. > > > > Thanks a lot for your time, > > Gelma > > Have you ever gotten around to testing this? well, I spent some time doing more deeply test. DB corruption happens anyway, even with the kernel that seems to work (I say seems because it needs much more effort to get corruption). I'm trying to understand it. I will work more over it next week. 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/