On Sun, 24 Dec 2006, Gordon Farquharson wrote:
>
> The apt cache files (/var/cache/apt/*.bin) still get corrupted with
> this patch and 2.6.19.
Yeah, if my guess about do_no_page() is right, _none_ of the previous
patches should have ANY effect what-so-ever. In fact, I'd say that even
the "ext3 works in writeback mode" thing that Andrei reports is probably a
total fluke brought on by timing changes rather than anything else.
So please try the latest patch instead (on top of anything that shows
corruption reliably - the patch should be _totally_ independent of all the
other issues, and I think it will apply cleanly on top of 2.6.18.3 and
2.6.19 too, so anything that shows corruption is a fine target - but try
to choose something that has been the "best" at corrupting things for you,
to make the testing as good as possible).
Patch included here again (although I think you were cc'd on my previous
email too, so you should already have it, and our emails just crossed)
And if this doesn't fix it, I don't know what will..
Linus
---
diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c
index 563792f..cf429c4 100644
--- a/mm/memory.c
+++ b/mm/memory.c
@@ -2247,21 +2249,23 @@ retry:
if (pte_none(*page_table)) {
flush_icache_page(vma, new_page);
entry = mk_pte(new_page, vma->vm_page_prot);
- if (write_access)
- entry = maybe_mkwrite(pte_mkdirty(entry), vma);
- set_pte_at(mm, address, page_table, entry);
if (anon) {
inc_mm_counter(mm, anon_rss);
lru_cache_add_active(new_page);
page_add_new_anon_rmap(new_page, vma, address);
+ if (write_access)
+ entry = maybe_mkwrite(pte_mkdirty(entry), vma);
} else {
inc_mm_counter(mm, file_rss);
page_add_file_rmap(new_page);
+ entry = pte_wrprotect(entry);
if (write_access) {
dirty_page = new_page;
get_page(dirty_page);
+ entry = maybe_mkwrite(pte_mkdirty(entry), vma);
}
}
+ set_pte_at(mm, address, page_table, entry);
} else {
/* One of our sibling threads was faster, back out. */
page_cache_release(new_page);
-
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