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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>,
	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>,
	mtk.manpages@gmail.com, linux-man@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: open(2) says O_DIRECT works on 512 byte boundries?
Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2009 15:41:53 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090204234153.GA32244@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090202220856.GY20323@random.random>

On Mon, Feb 02, 2009 at 11:08:56PM +0100, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> Hi Greg!
> 
> > Thanks for the pointers, I'll go read the thread and follow up there.
> 
> If you also run into this final fix is attached below. Porting to
> mainline is a bit hard because of gup-fast... Perhaps we can use mmu
> notifiers to fix gup-fast... need to think more about it then I'll
> post something.
> 
> Please help testing the below on pre-gup-fast kernels, thanks!

What kernel version was this patch against?  I can't seem to apply it to
anything close to mainline :(

I tried 2.6.29-rc3, 2.6.28-stable and 2.6.27-stable.

thanks,

greg k-h

  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-02-04 23:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-01-28 21:33 open(2) says O_DIRECT works on 512 byte boundries? Greg KH
2009-01-29  0:41 ` Robert Hancock
     [not found]   ` <20090129011758.GA26534@kroah.com>
2009-01-29  2:59     ` Michael Kerrisk
2009-01-29  3:13       ` Greg KH
2009-01-29 15:40         ` Jeff Moyer
2009-01-30  6:16           ` Greg KH
2009-01-29  5:13 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2009-01-29  7:10   ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2009-01-30  6:17     ` Greg KH
2009-02-02 22:08       ` Andrea Arcangeli
2009-02-03  1:29         ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2009-02-03  2:31           ` Andrea Arcangeli
2009-02-03  2:55             ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2009-02-03  3:42               ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2009-02-06 17:55               ` Andrea Arcangeli
2009-02-03  3:50         ` Greg KH
2009-02-03 15:01           ` Andrea Arcangeli
2009-02-03  4:13         ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2009-02-03  4:38         ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2009-02-03 15:08           ` Andrea Arcangeli
2009-02-04 23:41         ` Greg KH [this message]
2009-02-06 17:54           ` Andrea Arcangeli
2009-02-06 18:38             ` Andrea Arcangeli
2009-02-07 13:32             ` Izik Eidus
2009-02-07 15:33               ` Andrea Arcangeli

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