linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.29 -mm merge plans

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Date:	Sat, 10 Jan 2009 23:18:20 -0500
From:	Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu
To:	Ying Han <yinghan@...gle.com>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Mike Waychison <mikew@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: 2.6.29 -mm merge plans

On Wed, 07 Jan 2009 20:18:34 PST, Ying Han said:
> Hi Valdis:
>      Please try this fix and i tested on ubunbu8.10 with xmms and it helps.

Sorry for the long delay in testing, I was offline Wed-Friday taking some
much-needed leave time.

> diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/fault.c b/arch/x86/mm/fault.c
> index 9e268b6..f4bbd9b 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/mm/fault.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/mm/fault.c

This didn't apply cleanly to a mmotm-0105 tree, but did apply cleanly
with the following 3 patches reverted and then this new patch applied.

	page_fault-retry-with-nopage_retry.patch
	page_fault-retry-with-nopage_retry-fix.patch
	page_fault-retry-with-nopage_retry-fix-fix.patch

not surprising, since it looks like this patch is a replacement for all 3.  It
built and booted nicely, and xmms on the resulting kernel behaves properly.

Congrats on being able to debug the problem based on my fairly weird bug
report. ;)

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