Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 13 Dec 2000 17:51:21 +0000 | From | Albert Cranford <> | Subject | Re: test12: innd bug came back? |
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And the problem started with pre8 not final. currently investigating difference pre7-pre8 Albert Linus Torvalds wrote: > > In article <Pine.GSO.4.21.0012131646070.5045-100000@weyl.math.psu.edu>, > Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu> wrote: > > > > > >On 13 Dec 2000, Henrik [ISO-8859-1] Størner wrote: > > > >> Just to add a "me too" on this. I didn't report when I saw it last week, > >> because I was uncertain of exactly what might have caused it - I was > >> booting several different kernels at the time, including one from a > >> rescue disk (I was trying to salvage bits of a Win9x disk at the time - > >> don't ask for details!) > >> > >> Alas, I lost the test program someone wrote to test for the truncate > >> problem, and due to moving I will not be able to test anything until > >> next Monday. But if needed, I can do some testing then. Something > >> definitely went wrong with innd during the test12 pre-patches. > > > >It may be a side effect of removing partial_clear() in test12-final. > > No. If you read the code, partial_clear() has been a no-op for the > longest time (the "start & ~PAGE_MASK" thing could never trigger, as > "start" has been page-aligned for a long long while now. > > So it must be something else. > > Linus > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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