linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.29 -mm merge plans

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Message-ID: <604427e00901112018p43e96f1fw555dceccaa419147@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Sun, 11 Jan 2009 20:18:06 -0800
From:	Ying Han <yinghan@...gle.com>
To:	Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Mike Waychison <mikew@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: 2.6.29 -mm merge plans

Thank you Valdis for your work and that is a really good news. :-)

--Ying

On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 8:18 PM,  <Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu> wrote:
> On Wed, 07 Jan 2009 20:18:34 PST, Ying Han said:
>> Hi Valdis:
>>      Please try this fix and i tested on ubunbu8.10 with xmms and it helps.
>
> Sorry for the long delay in testing, I was offline Wed-Friday taking some
> much-needed leave time.
>
>> diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/fault.c b/arch/x86/mm/fault.c
>> index 9e268b6..f4bbd9b 100644
>> --- a/arch/x86/mm/fault.c
>> +++ b/arch/x86/mm/fault.c
>
> This didn't apply cleanly to a mmotm-0105 tree, but did apply cleanly
> with the following 3 patches reverted and then this new patch applied.
>
>        page_fault-retry-with-nopage_retry.patch
>        page_fault-retry-with-nopage_retry-fix.patch
>        page_fault-retry-with-nopage_retry-fix-fix.patch
>
> not surprising, since it looks like this patch is a replacement for all 3.  It
> built and booted nicely, and xmms on the resulting kernel behaves properly.
>
> Congrats on being able to debug the problem based on my fairly weird bug
> report. ;)
>
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