Re: [patch] fs: improved handling of page and buffer IO errors

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On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 01:48:29PM +0100, Jamie Lokier wrote:
> Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> > Careful with those slurs you're throwing around.  PA-RISC carefully
> > aligns its mmaps so they are coherent.
> 
> (Unless you use MAP_FIXED?)

Doctor, it hurts when I point this gun at my foot and pull the trigger
...

> Last time I looked at the coherency code, there appeared to be a few
> bugs on some architectures, but I didn't have the architectures to
> test and confirm them.  It was a long time ago, in the 2.4 era though.

I think there's a few parisc machines floating around looking for good
homes if you're interested.

-- 
Matthew Wilcox				Intel Open Source Technology Centre
"Bill, look, we understand that you're interested in selling us this
operating system, but compare it to ours.  We can't possibly take such
a retrograde step."
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