Re: WARNING: at fs/buffer.c:1186 mark_buffer_dirty+0x51/0x66()

[Vladislav Bolkhovitin]

Nick Piggin wrote:
> On Saturday 25 October 2008 03:10, Vladislav Bolkhovitin wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > During recent debugging session of my SCSI target SCST
> > (http://scst.sf.net) I noticed many
> >
> > WARNING: at fs/buffer.c:1186 mark_buffer_dirty+0x51/0x66()
> >
> > messages in kernel log on the initiator. I attached the full log of
> > several of them.
> >
> > My target was buggy and I was working on fixing it, but I suppose Linux
> > should handle such failures more gracefully. In all the cases the target
> > had one type of failure: it "ate" a SCSI command and never returned
> > result of it.
>
> Right. This is one of the warnings I see in my fault-injection testing.
> It is fixed by my patch to clean up and improve the page and buffer
> error handling in the vm/fs.

Can you specify which patch you referring? Is it in 2.6.27?
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