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

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Date:	Wed, 2 Aug 2006 23:53:02 +0200
From:	"Michal Piotrowski" <michal.k.k.piotrowski@...il.com>
To:	"Hugh Dickins" <hugh@...itas.com>
Cc:	"Andrew Morton" <akpm@...l.org>,
	"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

Hi Hugh,

On 02/08/06, Hugh Dickins <hugh@...itas.com> wrote:
> 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.)

Oops is gone. Thanks!

Andrew, can you add this patch to -mm?

>
> Hugh
>

Regards,
Michal

-- 
Michal K. K. Piotrowski
LTG - Linux Testers Group
(http://www.stardust.webpages.pl/ltg/wiki/)
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