From: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Subject: Re: ftruncate-mmap: pages are lost after writing to mmaped file.
Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2009 21:27:35 +1100
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On Tuesday 24 March 2009 18:44:21 Nick Piggin wrote:

> I close my eyes and pick something out of a hat. a686cd89. Search for XXX.
> Nice. Whether or not this cased the problem, can someone please tell me
> why it got merged in that state?

Actually I must be wrong about this if the problem was reproduced in
2.6.18. Question still stands, though.