Re: mm snapshot broken-out-2007-03-18-02-44.tar.gz uploaded

From: Nick Piggin
Date: Tue Mar 20 2007 - 01:17:34 EST


Andrew Morton wrote:
On Tue, 20 Mar 2007 13:47:53 +1100 Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


Andrew Morton wrote:


Hang on a sec... I'll try fixing the thing before you next make a
release.



Too late. hot-fixes/ awaits thee.

Awww... well thanks very much Michal for reporting the bug, I reproduced
it easily and it turns out to be a typo.

In my testing I never had a lot of writeout going on, so most of the pages
will have been truncated in the first loop...

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SUSE Labs, Novell Inc.
Fix typo in do_no_page vs invalidate race fix patch.

Index: linux-2.6/mm/truncate.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/mm/truncate.c
+++ linux-2.6/mm/truncate.c
@@ -235,7 +235,7 @@ void truncate_inode_pages_range(struct a
wait_on_page_writeback(page);
if (page_mapped(page)) {
unmap_mapping_range(mapping,
- (loff_t)page_index<<PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT,
+ (loff_t)page->index<<PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT,
PAGE_CACHE_SIZE, 0);
}
if (page->index > next)