linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/3] Preserve the dirty bit in init_page

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Message-Id: <20070531085556.11649c70.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Date:	Thu, 31 May 2007 08:55:56 -0700
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	ebiederm@...ssion.com (Eric W. Biederman)
Cc:	Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@...oo.com.au>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] Preserve the dirty bit in init_page_buffers

On Thu, 31 May 2007 05:56:33 -0600 ebiederm@...ssion.com (Eric W. Biederman) wrote:

> >> I suspect that is a pretty rare case but it does indeed seem to exist
> >> as a problem.
> >
> > I think so too. But either we have some misunderstanding of the
> > codepaths involved, or the author of the comments there didn't
> > consider this case, so...
> 
> Do someone needs to stand up and write the additional patches.
> Do we have a maintainer for fs/buffer.c?

me, if any one, I guess.  But I haven't really been following
this discussion - too long and slow ;)  'twould be good if you
could reprise it all in one email, presumably in diff -u form..
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