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    SubjectRe: [PATCH,RFC] initrd vs. BLKFLSBUF
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    Werner,

    Thanks for fix. Applied the patch and it's working now.

    Linus, please add this patch to the kernel source codes for 2.4.0.

    Under 2.2.18, it's working fine without the patch.

    Thanks,
    Jeff
    [ jchua@fedex.com ]
    ----- Original Message -----
    From: "Werner Almesberger" <Werner.Almesberger@epfl.ch>
    To: <viro@math.psu.edu>
    Cc: <jchua@fedex.com>; <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
    Sent: Monday, November 20, 2000 11:21 AM
    Subject: [PATCH,RFC] initrd vs. BLKFLSBUF


    Hi Al,

    Jeff Chua reported a while ago that BLKFLSBUF returns EBUSY on a RAM disk
    that was obtained via initrd. I think the problem is that the effect of
    the blkdev_open(out_inode, ...) in drivers/block/rd.c:rd_load_image is
    not undone at the end. I've attached a patch for 2.4.0-test11-pre7 that
    seems to solve the problem. Since I'm not quite sure I understand the
    reference counting rules there, I would appreciate your comment.

    Thanks,
    - Werner

    ---------------------------------- cut
    here -----------------------------------

    --- linux.orig/drivers/block/rd.c Mon Nov 20 02:07:47 2000
    +++ linux/drivers/block/rd.c Mon Nov 20 04:03:42 2000
    @@ -690,6 +690,7 @@
    done:
    if (infile.f_op->release)
    infile.f_op->release(inode, &infile);
    + blkdev_put(out_inode->i_bdev, BDEV_FILE);
    set_fs(fs);
    return;
    free_inodes: /* free inodes on error */
    --
    _________________________________________________________________________
    / Werner Almesberger, ICA, EPFL, CH Werner.Almesberger@epfl.ch /
    /_IN_N_032__Tel_+41_21_693_6621__Fax_+41_21_693_6610_____________________/

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