linux-kernel - Re: mm snapshot broken-out-2007-03-18-02-44.tar.gz uploaded

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Message-ID: <45FF6EC1.10705@yahoo.com.au>
Date:	Tue, 20 Mar 2007 16:18:57 +1100
From:	Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@...oo.com.au>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
CC:	Michal Piotrowski <michal.k.k.piotrowski@...il.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: mm snapshot broken-out-2007-03-18-02-44.tar.gz uploaded

Nick Piggin wrote:
> Andrew Morton wrote:
> 
>> On Tue, 20 Mar 2007 13:47:53 +1100 Nick Piggin 
>> <nickpiggin@...oo.com.au> wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Andrew Morton wrote:
>>>
> 
>>> Hang on a sec... I'll try fixing the thing before you next make a
>>> release.
>>>
>>
>>
>> Too late.  hot-fixes/ awaits thee.
> 
> 
> Awww... well thanks very much Michal for reporting the bug, I reproduced
> it easily and it turns out to be a typo.
> 
> In my testing I never had a lot of writeout going on, so most of the pages
> will have been truncated in the first loop...

Also, noticed another problem in the same general area. Andrew you were
indeed right to question the removal of that unmap_mapping_range call,
but I think even it alone it wasn't enough...

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