Re: [PATCH] 2.6.16-rc-mm4 reiser4 calls try_to_unmap() with 1 arg -- now takes 2

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On Thu, 2006-02-02 at 20:46 +0000, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> On Thu, 2 Feb 2006, Lee Schermerhorn wrote:
> 
> > Apparent race between reiser4 and direct migration patches in 16-rc1-
> > mm4.
> > Direct migration added arg to rmap.c:try_to_unmap()--int ignore_refs--
> > and
> > fixed up existing refs.  reiser4 adds new call with single arg. 
> > 
> > One doesn't see this when building mm4 w/ reiser4 because the ref under
> > an
> > "#if REISER4_COPY_ON_CAPTURE" that is apparently not enabled.  I  just
> > noticed
> > it while looking at direct migration patches.  So, this patch is
> > essentially
> > UNTESTED.  Supplied simply to illustrate the location of the single arg
> 
> That's worrying code to find down in a filesystem.  But never mind,
> it refers to pte_chain_lock(), which hasn't existed since 2.6.5.  So
> REISER4_COPY_ON_CAPTURE is long untested and should just be deleted.
> 
> Hugh

OK.  I had a 16-rc1-mm4 build problem earlier because of a similar patch
race between an SGI patch bundle and one of gregkh's patches [ATE_MAKE()
arg changes], so I just wanted to give folks a heads up.

Thanks for the response.

Lee
> 
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Lee Schermerhorn <[email protected]>
> > 
> > Index: linux-2.6.16-rc1-mm4/fs/reiser4/txnmgr.c
> > ===================================================================
> > --- linux-2.6.16-rc1-mm4.orig/fs/reiser4/txnmgr.c	2006-01-31
> > 16:51:39.000000000 -0500
> > +++ linux-2.6.16-rc1-mm4/fs/reiser4/txnmgr.c	2006-02-02
> > 14:43:01.659744418 -0500
> > @@ -3693,7 +3693,7 @@ static int create_copy_and_replace(jnode
> >  		pte_chain_lock(page);
> >  
> >  		if (page_mapped(page)) {
> > -			result = try_to_unmap(page);
> > +			result = try_to_unmap(page, 0);
> >  			if (result == SWAP_AGAIN) {
> >  				result = RETERR(-E_REPEAT);
> 

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