Zygo Blaxell wrote:
> Encrypted swap on kernels 2.4.19 and 2.4.20 has fatal problems which
> are not present in 2.4.18.
What filesystems are you using? If you are using ext3, I hope it is patched
with Andrew Morton's ext3 patches.
Can you re-run your hanging tests cases with this patch applied to
loop-AES-v1.7a? This patch reduces stack usage and may make loop little bit
slower.
Regards,
Jari Ruusu <jari.ruusu@pp.inet.fi>
--- loop.c-2.4.patched.old Wed Dec 25 21:00:20 2002
+++ loop.c-2.4.patched Thu Jan 23 14:11:35 2003
@@ -556,7 +556,7 @@
/*
* device backed, start reads and writes now if buffer available
*/
- bh = loop_get_buffer(lo, rbh, 0, rw);
+ bh = NULL; /*loop_get_buffer(lo, rbh, 0, rw);*/
if (!bh) {
/* just queue request and let thread handle alloc later */
loop_add_queue_last(lo, rbh, (rw == WRITE) ? &bhQue1(lo) : &bhQue2(lo));
-
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