linux-kernel - Re: Ok, explained.. (was Re: [PATCH] mm: fix page_mkclean

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Message-ID: <45951333.5070205@fatbob.nu>
Date:	Fri, 29 Dec 2006 14:08:03 +0100
From:	Martin Johansson <martin@...bob.nu>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...l.org>
CC:	Segher Boessenkool <segher@...nel.crashing.org>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, nickpiggin@...oo.com.au,
	kenneth.w.chen@...el.com, guichaz@...oo.fr, hugh@...itas.com,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	ranma@...edrich.de, gordonfarquharson@...il.com,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>, a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl,
	tbm@...ius.com, arjan@...radead.org, andrei.popa@...eo.ro
Subject: Re: Ok, explained.. (was Re: [PATCH] mm: fix page_mkclean_one)

Linus Torvalds wrote:
>[...] 
> The patch is mostly a comment. The "real" meat of it is actually just a 
> few lines.
> 
> Can anybody get corruption with this thing applied? It goes on top of 
> plain v2.6.20-rc2. 

No corruption with the testcase here. Will check with rtorrent too later 
today but I suppose it will work just fine.
Nice work! It has been interesting (and educating) to follow this 
bug-hunt :)

/Martin
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