linux-kernel - Re: VM: Fix nasty and subtle race in shared mmap'ed page writeback

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Date:	Thu, 4 Jan 2007 14:16:12 +0100
From:	Andrea Gelmini <gelma@...ma.net>
To:	Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@...oo.com.au>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...l.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: VM: Fix nasty and subtle race in shared mmap'ed page writeback

On Thu, Jan 04, 2007 at 05:03:43PM +1100, Nick Piggin wrote:
> Anyway that leaves us with the question of why Andrea's database is getting
> corrupted. Hopefully he can give us a minimal test-case.

yep, I can give you a complete image of my machine, or a root access.
replicate the problem it's not complicated, but it requires some time
(you have to expire/update usenet/newsgroup headers).
I can talk with Bauno to see if he can produce an automated program that
replicate user behavior.

thanks a lot for your interest,
gelma
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