Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 9 Jan 2007 21:28:50 +0100 | From | Adrian Bunk <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.20-rc4: known unfixed regressions (v2) |
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On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 09:58:19AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > On Tue, 9 Jan 2007, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > > > Subject : BUG: at mm/truncate.c:60 cancel_dirty_page() (reiserfs) > > References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/1/7/117 > > Submitter : Malte Schröder <MalteSch@gmx.de> > > Status : unknown > > Adrian, this is also available as > > http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/1/5/308
The latter was in my list as:
Subject : BUG: at mm/truncate.c:60 cancel_dirty_page() (XFS) References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/1/5/308 Submitter : Sami Farin <7atbggg02@sneakemail.com> Handled-By : David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com> Patch : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/1/7/201 Status : patch available
>... > So I think this does show some confusion in reiserfs, but it's not > anything new. The only new thing is that the _message_ happens. > > So I don't personally consider this a regression. Just a sign of old and > preexisting confusion that is now uncovered by new code (and it will print > out the scary message at most four times, and then stop complaining about > it. So apart from the scary message, nothing new and bad has really > happened).
At least the printing of scary messages is a regression.
Unless we want to be buried in bug reports after 2.6.20 got released, the minimum fix is to temporarily remove the WARN_ON().
> Linus
cu Adrian
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