Re: [patch] highmem-2.3.27-A0

Stephen C. Tweedie (sct@redhat.com)
Fri, 12 Nov 1999 16:35:42 +0000 (GMT)


Hi,

On Fri, 12 Nov 1999 10:07:05 +0100 (CET), Ingo Molnar
<mingo@chiara.csoma.elte.hu> said:

> attached patch against 2.3.27 fixes an oversight, only affects highmem
> boxes. Result of the bug is rare (strictly non-metadata) data corruption
> and potential crashes in kunmap_atomic().

Is anyone working on NFS for 2.3.27? The NFS client is completely
broken on highmem boxes right now: the first thing nfs_readpage_async
does currently is

unsigned long address = page_address(page);

which doesn't go down too well on a highmem page!

--Stephen

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