On Fri, Dec 29, 2006 at 10:02:53AM -0500, Dave Jones wrote: > On Fri, Dec 29, 2006 at 10:23:14AM +0100, maximilian attems wrote: > > > On Thu, Dec 28, 2006 at 11:21:21AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: <snipp> > > > > > That was a Fedora kernel. Has anyone seen the corruption in vanilla > 2.6.18 > > > > > (or older)? > > > > > > > > Well, that was a really _old_ fedora kernel. I guarantee you it > didn't > > > > have the page throttling patches in it, those were written this > summer. So > > > > it would either have to be Fedora carrying around another patch that > just > > > > happens to result in the same corruption for _years_, or it's the > same > > > > bug. > > > > > > The only notable VM patch in Fedora kernels of that vintage that I recall > > > was Ingo's 4g/4g thing. > > > > no the fedora 2.6.18 kernel is affected. > > I wasn't denying that, but Linus was talking about a 2.6.5 Fedora kernel. > > > it carries the same -mm patches that Debian backported > > for LSB 3.1 compliance. > > The only -mm stuff I recall being in the Fedora 2.6.18 is > the inode-diet stuff which ended up in 2.6.19, though the xmas > break has left my head somewhat empty so I may be forgetting something. > What patch in particular are you talking about?
it's no longer visible in the FC6 cvs, due to rebase but it's name was linux-2.6-mm-tracking-dirty-pages.patch it is an earlier almagame of the merged patch serie: - mm: tracking shared dirty pages - mm: balance dirty pages - mm: optimize the new mprotect() code a bit - mm: small cleanup of install_page() - mm: fixup do_wp_page() - mm: msync() cleanup (closes: #394392) -- maks - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
