linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Fixed a mismatch between the users of radix

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Date:	Thu, 11 Nov 2010 11:29:57 +1100
From:	Nick Piggin <npiggin@...nel.dk>
To:	Salman Qazi <sqazi@...gle.com>
Cc:	Nick Piggin <npiggin@...nel.dk>, paulmck@...ibm.com,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl, adurbin@...gle.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fixed a mismatch between the users of radix_tree and
 the implementation.

On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 11:16:21AM -0800, Salman Qazi wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 4:27 PM, Salman Qazi <sqazi@...gle.com> wrote:
> > On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 2:28 PM, Salman Qazi <sqazi@...gle.com> wrote:
> >> > -               if (unlikely(page == RADIX_TREE_RETRY))
> >> > +               if (radix_tree_deref_retry(page))
> >> >                        goto restart;
> >> >
> >> >                if (!page_cache_get_speculative(page))
> >> >
> >>
> >> I just verified that your patch fixes the issue.  Thanks for doing this.
> >
> > Are we going to proceed with this?
> >
> 
> 
> This bug is still unresolved.  Can we please follow this patch through
> to conclusion?

Yep, I'm about 30 minutes ahead of you (if you ignore the couple of
months I am behind).

I forgot to add you to cc, sorry -- patch just went to lkml and Linus.

Thanks for following up.

Thanks,
Nick
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