On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 8:14 PM, Johannes Buchner <buchner.johannes@xxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > Hello > I had some issues with the reiser4 patch series from -mm. > First of all, I'm not sure what release they are based on. I used > a8a8a669e from Linus' git repository. I applied all reiser4 patches > (except reiser4-disable of course) from > http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/, which worked fine. > > I think these patches are based on the reiser4-2.6.30 patch. > I also compared them to the reiser4-2.6.31 patch, which adds some > missing pieces ([1] reiser4-from-2.6.31-patch.patch). > > Additionally, some recent commits demand some changes, especially > since current_is_pdflush and generic_sync_sb_inodes are not available > any more (d8a8559cd7a9cc). > [2] reiser4-pdflush-comments.patch only fixes some comments which still > mention pdflush. > In [3] reiser4-generic_sync_sb_inodes.patch I tried to > replace generic_sync_sb_inodes. I am not 100% sure that this is > correct, but that is what I understood from the commit diff+message of > d8a8559cd7a9cc. > > The original patch > 'reiser4-vfs-add-super_operationssync_inodes' introduced the call from > sync_inodes_sb to the super operation sync_inodes(sb, NULL). This NULL > pointer is dereferenced in reiser4_sync_inodes, which is fixed by > [4] reiser4-sync_inodes-null-dereference.patch. > > All 4 additional patches are attached. I can only say that it works on > my machine, before I had compilation issues and freezes on 'sync'. > > Cheers, > Johannes > > PS: The git repo mentioned in > http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/mmotm-readme.txt is not available. > Yeah, you can find it now at git.zen-kernel.org. They had to switch the adress. Have fun Dushan > On Fri, 27 Nov 2009 04:00:51 +0100 > Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 03:51:48PM +1300, Johannes Buchner wrote: >> > [ I sent this 2 days ago to linux-fsdevel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, maybe >> > I'll get more responses in here. ] >> > >> > Hi! >> > >> > I would like to keep a git repo up to date with current kernel >> > development, with reiser4 patched in. I am having trouble finding a >> > repo that provides reiser4. Is there one? >> > >> > Some people may have noticed the last patch doesn't apply cleanly >> > anymore. I made a few lines of modifications in my local repo. Maybe >> > that repo would be interesting for others too*. >> > >> > I plan to catch up with changes from kernel development on a >> > daily/weekly basis; my /home partition is reiser4, so I am fairly >> > serious about it. >> > >> > At the moment, I fetch from torvalds/linux-2.6.git and >> > stable/linux-2.6.31.y.git. Am I missing any other repositories that >> > I should try to keep up with? (A fs subsystem maintainer repo?) >> > next/linux-next.git is probably moving too fast for me. >> >> >> You can try the -mm tree, the reiser 4 patches can be found inside: >> >> http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/ > > -- > Emails können geändert, gefälscht und eingesehen werden. Signiere oder > verschüssele deine Mails mit GPG. > http://web.student.tuwien.ac.at/~e0625457/pgp.html > > > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe reiserfs-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
