From: Ted Ts'o Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] ext4: Don't set PageUptodate in ext4_end_bio() Date: Tue, 10 May 2011 15:17:47 -0400 Message-ID: <20110510191747.GB6933@thunk.org> References: <1303762999-20541-1-git-send-email-curtw@google.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, Jim Meyering , Mingming Cao , Curt Wohlgemuth To: Hugh Dickins Return-path: Received: from li9-11.members.linode.com ([67.18.176.11]:41751 "EHLO test.thunk.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751250Ab1EJTRw (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 May 2011 15:17:52 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 10:41:56AM -0700, Hugh Dickins wrote: > > I'm concerned that we've reached -rc7, with Linus planning on 2.6.39 > release next week, but Curt's fix above to the mblk_io corruption bug > seems to have fallen through the cracks. It's in the ext4 master branch so it's queued to be pushed during the next merge window, and then it would go into the 2.6.39.x stable series. So it didn't fall through the cracks; it was just a question of whether to push late in the rc series, or waiting until the merge window and then backporting to 2.6.39 stable. Basically I got the patch in -rc5, and at that point, given that the vast majority of the file systems are 4k blocksize on x86, and most Power and Itanic users are using distribution kernels (and that's a very small number anyway), I decided not to push it to Linus at that point. It's a judgement call; and I could have gone the other way; it was very much a 49/51 sort of decision. - Ted