linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mm: fix page_mkclean_one (was: 2.6.19 file content corruption on ext3)

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Date:	Wed, 20 Dec 2006 23:53:25 -0800 (PST)
From:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...l.org>
To:	Gordon Farquharson <gordonfarquharson@...il.com>
cc:	Martin Michlmayr <tbm@...ius.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	Hugh Dickins <hugh@...itas.com>,
	Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@...oo.com.au>,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>,
	Andrei Popa <andrei.popa@...eo.ro>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Florian Weimer <fw@...eb.enyo.de>,
	Marc Haber <mh+linux-kernel@...schlus.de>,
	Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@...ibm.com>,
	Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@...ibm.com>,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd.bergmann@...ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: fix page_mkclean_one (was: 2.6.19 file content
 corruption on ext3)



On Thu, 21 Dec 2006, Gordon Farquharson wrote:
> 
> Unfortunately, I cannot get the latest git version of the kernel to
> boot on the ARM machine on which Martin and I are experiencing the apt
> segfault.

Ouch.

> After the kernel is finished uncompressing it prints "done,
> booting the kernel." as expected, but nothing more happens. I have
> tried both with and without the patch. Hopefully either Andrei or
> Martin will have better luck at testing this patch than I have had.

That's obviously a bug worth fixing on its own. Do you know when it 
started?

That said, I think the patch I sent out should actually work on top of 
plain 2.6.19 too. I don't think things have changed in this area that 
much. IOW, you don't _need_ latest -git to test it, you just need a broken 
kernel ;)

		Linus
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