Re: Help tracking down problem --- endless loop in__find_get_block_slow

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Wed Feb 23 2005 - 18:23:00 EST


"Thomas S. Iversen" <zensonic@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > I'd be suspecting that the sector remapping is the cause of the problem.
> > How is it implemented?
>
> Quite simple actually. You're most welcome to see the code, but I have
> just done a test like the one below. Never mind the performance figures,
> correctness comes as a very first priority. It does not block, cause
> endless loops or anything funny if I take the filsystem out of the
> question and access the raw devicemapped block device.
>
> This should assert that it is not a fault in my code, right?

I don't know. Can you describe how your driver implements the remapping?
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