linux-kernel - Re: mmap vs mtime in 2.6.26 and up

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Message-ID: <87oco94iyx.fsf@tac.ki.iif.hu>
Date:	Thu, 15 Oct 2009 02:08:22 +0200
From:	Ferenc Wagner <wferi@...f.hu>
To:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
Cc:	Ray Lee <ray-lk@...rabbit.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Peter Staubach <staubach@...hat.com>,
	Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@...e.cz>, xfs@....sgi.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: mmap vs mtime in 2.6.26 and up

Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org> writes:

> On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 02:47:42PM +0200, Ferenc Wagner wrote:
>
>> I added some fresh test results to
>> http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2645.  In short, under
>> 2.6.30-rc8 the test program reports full failure on XFS and RAMFS,
>> full success on EXT3, VFAT and ReiserFS, and mixed results on TMPFS:
>
> There's a patch queued up for inclusion in 2.6.32 to work around this
> issue in XFS.  The lack of a proper callout from the VFS still makes
> this a much less than ideal solution.

Great, anyway!  Somehow I managed to gloss over this mail until now,
but happened to test 2.6.32-rc4 and found the issue fixed.  At least
for XFS, as my latest addition to the bug report details it.  Thank
you very much for taking care of this issue!
-- 
Regards,
Feri.
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