Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 28 Dec 2000 03:41:05 +0200 (IST) | From | Dan Aloni <> | Subject | Re: innd mmap bug in 2.4.0-test12 |
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On Thu, 28 Dec 2000, Dan Aloni wrote:
> On Wed, 27 Dec 2000, Philipp Rumpf wrote: > > > On Wed, Dec 27, 2000 at 03:41:04PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > It must be wrong. > > > > > > If we have a dirty page on the LRU lists, that page _must_ have a mapping. > > > > What about pages with a mapping but without a writepage function ? or pages > > whose writepage function fails ? The current code seems to simply put the > > page onto the active list in that case, which seems just as wrong to me. > > I noticed the offset of 'mapping' in struct page doesn't match the offset > which get resolved at obsolute address 0x0000000c according to the Oops, > but it does matches the offset of a_ops in struct address_space, which > makes me wonder if it's possible that a_ops == NULL. Suggestions?
I was confused, or maybe temporal insanity, ignore that ;-)
-- Dan Aloni dax@karrde.org
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