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Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2008 22:38:30 +0300
From: Vladislav Bolkhovitin <vst@vlnb.net>
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To: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
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Subject: Re: WARNING: at fs/buffer.c:1186 mark_buffer_dirty+0x51/0x66()
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Nick Piggin wrote:
> On Saturday 25 October 2008 03:10, Vladislav Bolkhovitin wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> During recent debugging session of my SCSI target SCST
>> (http://scst.sf.net) I noticed many
>>
>> WARNING: at fs/buffer.c:1186 mark_buffer_dirty+0x51/0x66()
>>
>> messages in kernel log on the initiator. I attached the full log of
>> several of them.
>>
>> My target was buggy and I was working on fixing it, but I suppose Linux
>> should handle such failures more gracefully. In all the cases the target
>> had one type of failure: it "ate" a SCSI command and never returned
>> result of it.
> 
> Right. This is one of the warnings I see in my fault-injection testing.
> It is fixed by my patch to clean up and improve the page and buffer
> error handling in the vm/fs.

Can you specify which patch you referring? Is it in 2.6.27?
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