Re: 2.6.19 file content corruption on ext3

On Mon, 18 Dec 2006 12:14:35 -0800 (PST)
Linus Torvalds <[email protected]> wrote:

> OR:
> 
>  - page_mkclean_one() is simply buggy.
> 
> And I'm starting to wonder about the second case. But it all LOOKS really 
> fine - I can't see anything wrong there (it uses the extremely 
> conservative "ptep_get_and_clear()", and seems to flush everything right 
> too, through "ptep_establish()").

What does the call to page_check_address() in there do?

It'd be good to have a printk in there to see if it's triggering.

Is this all correct for non-linear VMAs?  (rtorrent doesn't use
MAP_NONLINEAR though).
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