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SubjectRe: filemap_fdatawait.patch
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I've started test with this patch on 2.6.1-mm2 this morning.
I've seen previous runs take 24 hours to see corruption,
so I let you tomorrow how things went.

Daniel

On Sun, 2004-01-11 at 15:44, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Janet Morgan <janetmor@us.ibm.com> wrote:
> >
> > >diff -puN mm/filemap.c~a mm/filemap.c
> > >--- 25/mm/filemap.c~a 2003-12-31 03:10:29.000000000 -0800
> > >+++ 25-akpm/mm/filemap.c 2003-12-31 03:17:05.000000000 -0800
> > >@@ -206,7 +206,13 @@ restart:
> > > page_cache_get(page);
> > > spin_unlock(&mapping->page_lock);
> > >
> > >- wait_on_page_writeback(page);
> > >+ lock_page(page);
> > >+ if (PageDirty(page) && mapping->a_ops->writepage) {
> > >+ write_one_page(page, 1);
> > >+ } else {
> > >+ wait_on_page_writeback(page);
> > >+ unlock_page(page);
> > >+ }
> > > if (PageError(page))
> > > ret = -EIO;
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > That fixed the problem! Stephen's testcase is running successfully on
> > 2.6.1-mm1 plus your patch -- no more uninitialized data!
>
> Could you please test 2.6.1-mm2 with that patch? If that works, send the
> patch back to me? (I lost it ;))
>
> It still leaves the AIO situation open.

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