linux-kernel - Re: [RESEND] [PATCH] fix invalidate_inode_pages2

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Message-ID: <x49ejb64f7d.fsf@segfault.boston.devel.redhat.com>
Date:	Thu, 21 Feb 2008 08:22:14 -0500
From:	Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@...hat.com>
To:	Hisashi Hifumi <hifumi.hisashi@....ntt.co.jp>
Cc:	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Zach Brown <zach.brown@...cle.com>
Subject: Re: [RESEND] [PATCH] fix invalidate_inode_pages2_range not to clear ret

Hisashi Hifumi <hifumi.hisashi@....ntt.co.jp> writes:

> Hi Jeff.
>
>>
>>I agree with the patch (and I see Andrew already accepted it).  Do you
>>have a reproducer for this problem?
>
> Do you want to know the way of failing invalidate_complete_page2() ?

I was hoping for a test program that shows the problem.  Looking through
the previous threads on this subject, it seems that Zach may have had a
reproducer.  I tried running the aio-dio-regress tests on the 2.6.25-rc2
kernel, but was unable to trigger this problem.

-Jeff
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