Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932929AbYBUNXo (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Feb 2008 08:23:44 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753023AbYBUNXS (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Feb 2008 08:23:18 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:57467 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752635AbYBUNXR (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Feb 2008 08:23:17 -0500 From: Jeff Moyer To: Hisashi Hifumi Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Zach Brown Subject: Re: [RESEND] [PATCH] fix invalidate_inode_pages2_range not to clear ret References: <6.0.0.20.2.20080215132604.06091618@172.19.0.2> <6.0.0.20.2.20080221111433.0394f1c8@172.19.0.2> X-PGP-KeyID: 1F78E1B4 X-PGP-CertKey: F6FE 280D 8293 F72C 65FD 5A58 1FF8 A7CA 1F78 E1B4 X-PCLoadLetter: What the f**k does that mean? Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2008 08:22:14 -0500 In-Reply-To: <6.0.0.20.2.20080221111433.0394f1c8@172.19.0.2> (Hisashi Hifumi's message of "Thu, 21 Feb 2008 11:23:20 +0900") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 774 Lines: 21 Hisashi Hifumi writes: > Hi Jeff. > >> >>I agree with the patch (and I see Andrew already accepted it). Do you >>have a reproducer for this problem? > > Do you want to know the way of failing invalidate_complete_page2() ? I was hoping for a test program that shows the problem. Looking through the previous threads on this subject, it seems that Zach may have had a reproducer. I tried running the aio-dio-regress tests on the 2.6.25-rc2 kernel, but was unable to trigger this problem. -Jeff -- 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/