Re: VM: Fix nasty and subtle race in shared mmap'ed page writeback

From: Andrea Gelmini
Date: Fri Dec 29 2006 - 17:49:25 EST


On Fri, Dec 29, 2006 at 06:59:02PM +0000, Linux Kernel Mailing List wrote:
> Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=7658cc289288b8ae7dd2c2224549a048431222b3
> Commit: 7658cc289288b8ae7dd2c2224549a048431222b3
> Parent: 3bf8ba38f38d3647368e4edcf7d019f9f8d9184a
> Author: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> AuthorDate: Fri Dec 29 10:00:58 2006 -0800
> Committer: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> CommitDate: Fri Dec 29 10:00:58 2006 -0800
>
> VM: Fix nasty and subtle race in shared mmap'ed page writeback

With 2.6.20-rc2-git1, which contain this patch, I have no more Berkeley
DB corruption with Klibido.¹
I'm afraid a lot of software project switched to Sqlite,² from BDB,³
because the bug this patch fix (ie. http://bogofilter.sourceforge.net/).
I've also thought, since years, it was an userland problem.

Ciao,
gelma

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¹ http://klibido.sourceforge.net/
² http://www.sqlite.org/
³ http://www.oracle.com/database/berkeley-db/index.html
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