On Wed, Jan 17, 2007 at 14:43:29 +1100, David Chinner wrote:
...
> > > Subject : BUG: at mm/truncate.c:60 cancel_dirty_page() (XFS)
> > > References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/1/5/308
> > > Submitter : Sami Farin <[email protected]>
> > > Handled-By : David Chinner <[email protected]>
> > > Status : problem is being discussed
> >
> > I'm at LCA and been having laptop dramas so the fix is being held up at this
> > point. I and trying to test a change right now that adds an optional unmap
> > to truncate_inode_pages_range as XFS needs, in some circumstances, to toss
> > out dirty pages (with dirty bufferheads) and hence requires truncate semantics
> > that are currently missing unmap calls.
> >
> > Semi-untested patch attached below.
>
> The patch has run XFSQA for about 24 hours now on my test rig without
> triggering any problems.
I have also ran this for 24h (in patched 2.6.19.2)
and no problems noticed :)
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