From: Thomas Schlichter <schlicht@uni-mannheim.de>
To: "Barry K. Nathan" <barryn@pobox.com>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: Nick Piggin <piggin@cyberone.com.au>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [BUG] heavy disk access sometimes freezes 2.5.73-mm[123]
Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2003 17:58:44 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200307071758.45702.schlicht@uni-mannheim.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030707033058.GA2860@ip68-4-255-84.oc.oc.cox.net>
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On Monday 07 July 2003 05:30, Barry K. Nathan wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 06, 2003 at 07:37:22PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > Nick Piggin <piggin@cyberone.com.au> wrote:
> >
> > Barry says the problem started with 2.5.73-mm1. There was a reiserfs
> > patch added in that kernel.
> >
> > Does a `patch -R' of this fix it up?
>
> [patch snipped]
>
> Yes, backing that patch out fixes it.
I had similar problems with my reiserfs root FS. For me backing out only the
second chunk of the patch made it, too. I've attached the patch I used for
that. If someone sees something really bad I'm doing with this please write,
because I'm playing with my root FS... ;-)
Best regards
Thomas Schlichter
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diff -u linux-2.5.74-mm2/fs/reiserfs/tail_conversion.c.orig linux-2.5.74-mm2/fs/reiserfs/tail_conversion.c
--- linux-2.5.74-mm2/fs/reiserfs/tail_conversion.c.orig 2003-06-23 09:26:10.000000000 -0700
+++ linux-2.5.74-mm2/fs/reiserfs/tail_conversion.c 2003-06-23 09:26:10.000000000 -0700
@@ -190,9 +190,6 @@ unmap_buffers(struct page *page, loff_t
}
bh = next ;
} while (bh != head) ;
- if ( PAGE_SIZE == bh->b_size ) {
- ClearPageDirty(page);
- }
}
}
}
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-07-07 15:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-07-03 9:05 [BUG] heavy disk access sometimes freezes 2.5.73-mm[123] Barry K. Nathan
2003-07-06 20:46 ` Barry K. Nathan
2003-07-07 2:27 ` Nick Piggin
2003-07-07 2:37 ` Andrew Morton
2003-07-07 3:30 ` Barry K. Nathan
2003-07-07 15:58 ` Thomas Schlichter [this message]
2003-07-07 17:33 ` Chris Mason
2003-07-07 19:18 ` Andrew Morton
2003-07-07 23:47 ` Barry K. Nathan
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