linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mm: fix page_mkclean

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Date:	Thu, 28 Dec 2006 11:28:52 -0800 (PST)
From:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...l.org>
To:	Guillaume Chazarain <guichaz@...oo.fr>
cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, ranma@...edrich.de,
	gordonfarquharson@...il.com, tbm@...ius.com,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>, andrei.popa@...eo.ro,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>, hugh@...itas.com,
	nickpiggin@...oo.com.au, arjan@...radead.org,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Chen Kenneth W <kenneth.w.chen@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: fix page_mkclean_one

On Thu, 28 Dec 2006, Guillaume Chazarain wrote:
> 
> The attached patch fixes the corruption for me.

Well, that's a good hint, but it's really just a symptom. You effectively 
just made the test-program not even try to flush the data to disk, so the 
page cache would stay in memory, and you'd not see the corruption as well.

So you basically disabled the code that tried to trigger the bug more 
easily.

But the reason I say it's interesting is that "WB_SYNC_NONE" is very much 
implicated in mm/page-writeback.c, and if there is a bug triggered by 
WB_SYNC_NONE writebacks, then that would explain why page-writeback.c also 
fails..

		Linus
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