linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.19 file content corruption on ext3

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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0612220926390.3671@woody.osdl.org>
Date:	Fri, 22 Dec 2006 09:27:35 -0800 (PST)
From:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...l.org>
To:	Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@...izon.net>
cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Andrei Popa <andrei.popa@...eo.ro>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>, Hugh Dickins <hugh@...itas.com>,
	Florian Weimer <fw@...eb.enyo.de>,
	Marc Haber <mh+linux-kernel@...schlus.de>,
	Martin Michlmayr <tbm@...ius.com>
Subject: Re: 2.6.19 file content corruption on ext3



On Mon, 18 Dec 2006, Gene Heskett wrote:
>
> What about the mm/rmap.c one liner, in or out?

The one that just removes the "pte_mkclean()"? That's definitely out, it 
was just a test-patch to verify that the pte dirty bits seemed to matter 
at all (and they do).

		Linus
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