On Mon, 21 May 2007 13:11:21 -0500 Eric Sandeen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> This is a non-ida backport of Tejun's patch in -mm at: > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.22-rc1/2.6.22-rc1-mm1/broken-out/gregkh-driver-sysfs-allocate-inode-number-using-ida.patch > for the 2.6.16 -stable tree - it follows the same scheme of using s_ino to > safely > store & retrieve the inode number of sysfs entries for use in sysfs_readdir, > but uses a brain-dead-simple inode nr allocator rather than ida, which would > bring along a lot of newer, more complex code. > > No, this doesn't guarantee uniqueness of sysfs inode numbers, but then > the code in -stable today doesn't either - and with this change, at least > it shouldn't oops. So I'm sitting here whether to commend this patch to google kernel maintainers for 2.6.18 backport, but I realise I don't know what it does. And I don't know if it fixes the reclaim-time oopses they were intermittently seeing, or if it fixes something else and if so what that is. Sigh. Better changelogs, please. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
