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Re: XFS+Tux = patch trouble

To: Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk <roy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: XFS+Tux = patch trouble
From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxx>
Date: 05 Nov 2001 10:29:20 -0600
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Hi Roy - 

As Steve said on another thread, look at the 2.4.9 RPMS in the testing/
directory on the xfs ftp site.  They have both XFS and Tux in them (and
a ton of other things, as well...)

The issues I ran into on the merge had to do with fine-grained pagecache
locking, i.e. lots of things like:

-       spin_lock(&pagecache_lock);
+       spin_lock(__PAGECACHE_LOCK(mapping, index));

We use a couple of these spin_locks new functions in mm/filemap.c, so
they'll need to be converted as well - the tux patch won't catch these.

-Eric

On Mon, 2001-11-05 at 09:53, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk wrote:
> hi
> 
> Does anyone know how to merge the XFS and Tux patches?
> 
> thanks
> 
> ---
> Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk, MCSE, MCNE, CLS, LCA
> 
> Computers are like air conditioners.
> They stop working when you open Windows.
-- 
Eric Sandeen      XFS for Linux     http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs
sandeen@xxxxxxx   SGI, Inc.


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