linux-kernel - Re: mm snapshot broken-out-2006-08-02-00-27.tar.gz uploaded

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Date:	Wed, 2 Aug 2006 19:50:31 +0100 (BST)
From:	Hugh Dickins <hugh@...itas.com>
To:	Michal Piotrowski <michal.k.k.piotrowski@...il.com>
cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>,
	Dave Jones <davej@...emonkey.org.uk>,
	Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@...oo.com.au>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: mm snapshot broken-out-2006-08-02-00-27.tar.gz uploaded

On Wed, 2 Aug 2006, Michal Piotrowski wrote:
> On 02/08/06, akpm@...l.org <akpm@...l.org> wrote:
> > The mm snapshot broken-out-2006-08-02-00-27.tar.gz has been uploaded to
> >
> >    ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/mm/broken-out-2006-08-02-00-27.tar.gz
> >
> > It contains the following patches against 2.6.18-rc3:
....
> 
> Here is something new, previous mm snapshot was fine
> 
> Aug  2 19:56:08 ltg01-fedora kernel: ------------[ cut here ]------------
> Aug  2 19:56:08 ltg01-fedora kernel: kernel BUG at
> /usr/src/linux-work4/mm/shmem.c:1228!
> 1228            BUG_ON(!(vma->vm_flags & VM_CAN_INVALIDATE));
> 
> I will revert
> fix-the-race-between-invalidate_inode_pages-and-do_no_page.patch
> fix-the-race-between-invalidate_inode_pages-and-do_no_page-tidy.patch
> and see what will happen.

Rather than reverting those, please add something like (I've not seen
this particular tree) the fixup below - it's easily missed that
ipc/shm.c has its own reference to shmem_nopage.  (Last I heard,
the flag was called VM_CAN_INVLD, but it looks like I'm not the
only one averse to unpronounceables.)

Hugh

--- 2.6.18-rc2-mm1/ipc/shm.c	2006-07-27 16:19:18.000000000 +0100
+++ linux/ipc/shm.c	2006-08-02 19:29:46.000000000 +0100
@@ -264,6 +264,7 @@ static struct vm_operations_struct shm_v
 	.set_policy = shmem_set_policy,
 	.get_policy = shmem_get_policy,
 #endif
+	.vm_flags = VM_CAN_INVALIDATE,
 };
 
 static int newseg (struct ipc_namespace *ns, key_t key, int shmflg, size_t size)
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