Christian Borntraeger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Am Donnerstag, 18. Oktober 2007 schrieb Eric W. Biederman: >> Grr. Inconsistent rules on a core piece of infrastructure. >> It looks like that if there is any trivial/minimal fix it >> is based on your patch suppressing try_to_free_buffers. Ugh. >> >> Eric > > Ok. What do you think about having my patch for 2.6.23 stable, for 2.6.24 > and doing a nicer fix (rd rewrite for example for post 2.6.24)?
Looking at it. If we don't get carried away using our own private inode is barely more difficult then stomping on release_page and in a number of ways a whole lot more subtle. At least for 2.6.24 I think it makes a sane fix, and quite possibly as a back port as well. Eric - 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/