From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from digeo-nav01.digeo.com (digeo-nav01.digeo.com [192.168.1.233]) by packet.digeo.com (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.3) with SMTP id TAA21111 for ; Sun, 27 Oct 2002 19:38:12 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <3DBCB123.5969FCC0@digeo.com> Date: Sun, 27 Oct 2002 19:38:11 -0800 From: Andrew Morton MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: VM BUG, set_page_dirty() buggy? References: <20021025094715.GF12628@suse.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Jens Axboe Cc: Linux Kernel , linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: 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. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/