On Mon, 2010-05-31 at 20:42 +0100, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > This mail is about the XFS problems reported on ARM (which also affect > hppa and sh): > > * Andre Draszik <a...@...> [2010-05-27 11:41]: > > Not sure if you are the right person to approach... Sorry if not :-) > > > > I was wondering (since you mention your debian kernel on your website) > > if you could update the debian kernel (lenny and sid?) to include the > > XFS VIVT cache fixes from > > http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/jejb/xfs-vipt/.git;a=summary > > ? > > > > They are also in Linus' tree since 2.6.34-rc1, btw. > > I'm way behind on lkml mail. Ben, do you know if these patches have > been proposed for inclusion in -stable?
Don't think it has.
We would need at least the following changes:
commit 2c9b9c8490b60428fa2d1c64042f7c7caed93940
Author: Russell King <rmk+ker...@arm.linux.org.uk>
Date: Thu Nov 26 12:56:21 2009 +0000
ARM: add size argument to __cpuc_flush_dcache_page
commit 9df5f74194871ebd0e51ef5ad2eca5084acaaaba
Author: James Bottomley <james.bottom...@suse.de>
Date: Mon Jan 25 11:42:20 2010 -0600
mm: add coherence API for DMA to vmalloc/vmap areas
commit ef7cc35b0ee03431731186320b18e5da585341ff
Author: James Bottomley <james.bottom...@suse.de>
Date: Mon Jan 25 11:42:21 2010 -0600
parisc: add mm API for DMA to vmalloc/vmap areas
commit 252a9afff76097667429b583e8b5b170b47665a4
Author: James Bottomley <james.bottom...@suse.de>
Date: Mon Jan 25 11:42:22 2010 -0600
arm: add mm API for DMA to vmalloc/vmap areas
commit c9334f6067dbe0380141fc75b122e0a533878838
Author: James Bottomley <james.bottom...@suse.de>
Date: Mon Jan 25 11:42:23 2010 -0600
sh: add mm API for DMA to vmalloc/vmap areas
commit 73c77e2ccc14413c232c3e0b3aa43a0c4b72ec70
Author: James Bottomley <james.bottom...@suse.de>
Date: Mon Jan 25 11:42:24 2010 -0600
xfs: fix xfs to work with Virtually Indexed architectures
For the first of these, we would need confirmation from upstream that it
is suitable for backporting.
Ben.
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Ben Hutchings
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