On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 12:24:18AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Wed, 29 Apr 2009 09:12:33 +0200 Nick Piggin <npiggin@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > > I haven't got any prepared, but they should be a pretty trivial > > backport, provided we also backport c2ec175c39f62949438354f603f4aa170846aabb > > (which is probably a good idea anyway). > > > > However I will probably wait for a bit, given that the patch isn't upstream > > yet. > > err, I'd marked it as for-2.6.31. It looks like that was wrong? At the time I agreed because I didn't know the severity of the NFS bugs. So it is up to you and Trond / nfs guys I guess. > all this: > > #mm-close-page_mkwrite-races-try-3.patch: akpm issues! > #mm-close-page_mkwrite-races-try-3.patch: check akpm hack > mm-close-page_mkwrite-races-try-3.patch > mm-close-page_mkwrite-races-try-3-update.patch > mm-close-page_mkwrite-races-try-3-fix.patch > mm-close-page_mkwrite-races-try-3-fix-fix.patch > > is a bit of a worry. But I guess we won't know until we merge it. I have nothing against merging it now if you think it is needed. It's only adding synchronisation, so I doubt it will cause a problem that pushes the release out. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
