Re: 2.4.0-test8-pre1 is quite bad / how about integrating Rik's VM now?

2000-09-04 Thread Daniel Phillips
Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you >wrote: > > > Well, the bug seems to exactly using the page after a "free_page()". Which > > is always a bug, but at least should be easy to fix. > > > I've considered making "free_page()" a macro something like > > >

Re: 2.4.0-test8-pre1 is quite bad / how about integrating Rik's VM now?

2000-09-04 Thread Daniel Phillips
Arjan van de Ven wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: Well, the bug seems to exactly using the page after a "free_page()". Which is always a bug, but at least should be easy to fix. I've considered making "free_page()" a macro something like __free_page(x);

Re: 2.4.0-test8-pre1 is quite bad / how about integrating Rik's VM now?

2000-09-03 Thread Henrik Størner
On Sat, Sep 02, 2000 at 01:58:58PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: [ext2 truncate bug which caused the innd file corruption may also affect other filesystems] > Anyway, the way to test if you have the bug is this simple program from > Al Viro who noticed the bug and has the fix - notice that you

Re: 2.4.0-test8-pre1 is quite bad / how about integrating Rik's VM now?

2000-09-03 Thread Henrik Størner
On Sat, Sep 02, 2000 at 01:58:58PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: [ext2 truncate bug which caused the innd file corruption may also affect other filesystems] Anyway, the way to test if you have the bug is this simple program from Al Viro who noticed the bug and has the fix - notice that you

Re: 2.4.0-test8-pre1 is quite bad / how about integrating Rik's VM now?

2000-09-02 Thread Linus Torvalds
In article <8ornsg$h70$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Henrik =?ISO-8859-1?Q?St=F8rner?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >I am one of the people who have been seeing this problem. I would be >very surprised if it was an ext2 problem, as the only ext2 filesystem >on my disk contains all of /boot. No programs, no

Re: 2.4.0-test8-pre1 is quite bad / how about integrating Rik's VM now?

2000-09-02 Thread Henrik Størner
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >On Sat, 2 Sep 2000, Rik van Riel wrote: >> >> In fact, I plan to spend most of my time trying to track down >> the 2 VM problems on tytso's list: >> >> 1) the innd data corruption bug >This, I think, was due to a bug in ext2

2.4.0-test8-pre1 is quite bad / how about integrating Rik's VM now?

2000-09-02 Thread bert hubert
On Fri, Sep 01, 2000 at 03:58:22PM -0300, Rik van Riel wrote: > > filesystem? It starts swapping like mad and generally behaves > > indecently, despite the huge 1024M of RAM it has. > > http://www.surriel.com/patches/2.4.0-t8p1-vmpatch2 > > I'm working on these issues and seem to be pretty

Re: 2.4.0-test8-pre1 is quite bad / how about integrating Rik's VM now?

2000-09-02 Thread Henrik Størner
In [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linus Torvalds [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sat, 2 Sep 2000, Rik van Riel wrote: In fact, I plan to spend most of my time trying to track down the 2 VM problems on tytso's list: 1) the innd data corruption bug This, I think, was due to a bug in ext2 truncate. If so,

Re: 2.4.0-test8-pre1 is quite bad / how about integrating Rik's VM now?

2000-09-02 Thread Linus Torvalds
In article 8ornsg$h70$[EMAIL PROTECTED], Henrik =?ISO-8859-1?Q?St=F8rner?= [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am one of the people who have been seeing this problem. I would be very surprised if it was an ext2 problem, as the only ext2 filesystem on my disk contains all of /boot. No programs, no news