Re: 2.4.19rc4aa1

Andrea Arcangeli (andrea@suse.de)
Thu, 1 Aug 2002 16:17:03 +0200


On Thu, Aug 01, 2002 at 07:51:24AM +0200, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> This may be the last update for a week (unless there's a quick bug to
> fix before next morning :). I wanted to ship async-io and largepage

I would like to thank Randy Hron for reproducing this problem so
quickly with the ltp testsuite:

>>EIP; 80132cc2 <shmem_writepage+22/130> <=====

here the fix:

--- 2.4.19rc4aa1/include/linux/mm.h.~1~ Thu Aug 1 07:15:54 2002
+++ 2.4.19rc4aa1/include/linux/mm.h Thu Aug 1 16:13:56 2002
@@ -296,8 +296,8 @@ typedef struct page {
#define PG_checked 12 /* kill me in 2.5.<early>. */
#define PG_arch_1 13
#define PG_reserved 14
-#define PG_bigpage 15
#define PG_launder 15 /* written out by VM pressure.. */
+#define PG_bigpage 16

/* Make it prettier to test the above... */
#define UnlockPage(page) unlock_page(page)

new rc4aa2 with this single fix is coming, if anybody else found any
other problem please let me know ASAP :), thanks.

Andrea
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