From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>,
Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>,
stable@kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] rd: Mark ramdisk buffers heads dirty
Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2007 16:46:04 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m1sl46en9v.fsf@ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200710181126.10559.borntraeger@de.ibm.com> (Christian Borntraeger's message of "Thu, 18 Oct 2007 11:26:10 +0200")
Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com> writes:
> Am Donnerstag, 18. Oktober 2007 schrieb Eric W. Biederman:
>> Grr. Inconsistent rules on a core piece of infrastructure.
>> It looks like that if there is any trivial/minimal fix it
>> is based on your patch suppressing try_to_free_buffers. Ugh.
>>
>> Eric
>
> Ok. What do you think about having my patch for 2.6.23 stable, for 2.6.24
> and doing a nicer fix (rd rewrite for example for post 2.6.24)?
Looking at it. If we don't get carried away using our own private
inode is barely more difficult then stomping on release_page and
in a number of ways a whole lot more subtle. At least for 2.6.24 I
think it makes a sane fix, and quite possibly as a back port as well.
Eric
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-10-19 22:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 77+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-10-15 8:28 [PATCH resend] ramdisk: fix zeroed ramdisk pages on memory pressure Christian Borntraeger
2007-10-15 14:06 ` Nick Piggin
2007-10-15 9:05 ` Christian Borntraeger
2007-10-15 14:38 ` Nick Piggin
2007-10-15 18:38 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-10-15 22:37 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-10-15 22:40 ` [PATCH] rd: Preserve the dirty bit in init_page_buffers() Eric W. Biederman
2007-10-15 22:42 ` [PATCH] rd: Mark ramdisk buffers heads dirty Eric W. Biederman
2007-10-16 7:56 ` Christian Borntraeger
2007-10-16 9:22 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-10-17 16:14 ` Christian Borntraeger
2007-10-17 17:57 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-10-17 19:14 ` Chris Mason
2007-10-17 20:29 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-10-17 20:54 ` Chris Mason
2007-10-17 21:30 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-10-17 22:58 ` Chris Mason
2007-10-17 23:28 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-10-18 0:03 ` Chris Mason
2007-10-18 3:27 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-10-18 3:59 ` [RFC][PATCH] block: Isolate the buffer cache in it's own mappings Eric W. Biederman
2007-10-18 4:32 ` Andrew Morton
2007-10-19 21:27 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-10-21 4:24 ` Nick Piggin
2007-10-21 4:53 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-10-21 5:36 ` Nick Piggin
2007-10-21 7:09 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-10-22 0:15 ` David Chinner
2007-10-18 5:10 ` Nick Piggin
2007-10-19 21:35 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-10-17 21:48 ` [PATCH] rd: Mark ramdisk buffers heads dirty Christian Borntraeger
2007-10-17 22:22 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-10-18 9:26 ` Christian Borntraeger
2007-10-19 22:46 ` Eric W. Biederman [this message]
2007-10-19 22:51 ` [PATCH] rd: Use a private inode for backing storage Eric W. Biederman
2007-10-21 4:28 ` Nick Piggin
2007-10-21 5:10 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-10-21 5:24 ` Nick Piggin
2007-10-21 6:48 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-10-21 7:28 ` Christian Borntraeger
2007-10-21 8:23 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-10-21 9:56 ` Nick Piggin
2007-10-21 18:39 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-10-22 1:56 ` Nick Piggin
2007-10-22 13:11 ` Chris Mason
2007-10-21 9:39 ` Nick Piggin
2007-10-21 17:56 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-10-22 0:29 ` Nick Piggin
2007-10-16 8:19 ` [PATCH] rd: Mark ramdisk buffers heads dirty Nick Piggin
2007-10-16 8:48 ` Christian Borntraeger
2007-10-16 19:06 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-10-16 22:06 ` Nick Piggin
2007-10-16 8:12 ` [PATCH] rd: Preserve the dirty bit in init_page_buffers() Nick Piggin
2007-10-16 9:35 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-10-15 9:16 ` [PATCH resend] ramdisk: fix zeroed ramdisk pages on memory pressure Andrew Morton
2007-10-15 15:23 ` Nick Piggin
2007-10-16 3:14 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-10-16 6:45 ` Nick Piggin
2007-10-16 4:57 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-10-16 8:08 ` Nick Piggin
2007-10-16 7:47 ` [patch][rfc] rewrite ramdisk Nick Piggin
2007-10-16 7:52 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-10-16 8:07 ` Nick Piggin
2007-10-16 8:17 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-10-16 8:26 ` Nick Piggin
2007-10-16 8:53 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-10-16 9:08 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-10-16 21:28 ` Theodore Tso
2007-10-16 22:08 ` Nick Piggin
2007-10-16 23:48 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-10-17 0:28 ` Nick Piggin
2007-10-17 1:13 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-10-17 1:47 ` Nick Piggin
2007-10-17 10:30 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-10-17 12:49 ` Nick Piggin
2007-10-17 18:45 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-10-18 1:06 ` Nick Piggin
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