From: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>
To: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Cc: Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: VM BUG, set_page_dirty() buggy?
Date: Sun, 27 Oct 2002 19:38:11 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3DBCB123.5969FCC0@digeo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20021025094715.GF12628@suse.de>
Jens Axboe wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm seeing what looks like a bug in set_page_dirty() in 2.5.44 (and
> 2.5.44-mm5), pages are being dumped.
It's not set_page_dirty() or direct IO. There's a fairly long-standing
bug in the writeback code which can cause the kernel to never write out
ext2 indirect blocks. Complete bastard of a thing it was, too.
I'll send out the fix shortly.
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-10-25 9:47 Jens Axboe
2002-10-25 9:52 ` Jens Axboe
2002-10-28 3:38 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
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