Agreed. That's a vast difference.
On Fri, 2002-02-01 at 17:08, Steve Lord wrote:
> On Fri, 2002-02-01 at 16:50, Adam McKenna wrote:
> > On Fri, Feb 01, 2002 at 04:52:30PM -0600, Austin Gonyou wrote:
> > > I'd be happy to help you out. I'm looking to test both -aa and rmap.
>
> > >
> > > what is your current procedure for merging this?
> >
> > Right now I just applied both patches and I am looking at the .rej
> files.
> >
> > Currently, here are the issues I'm seeing -- I'm using the 2.4.17
> snapshot
> > from ftp://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/download/patches/2.4.17/.
> >
> > issue 1 - fs/buffer.c:
> >
>
> This one is a little nasty in that it seems to remove the possibility of
> a failure at this point, and with xfs in there we do a
> write_buffer_locked
> call in place of the submit_bh we can definitely fail. I am guessing
> a little bit since I need more context to really work it out, and I
> am not really feeling like patching up yet another kernel version here.
>
> >
> > issue 2 - vmscan.c - see http://flounder.net/vmscan.c.rej for the .rej
> file.
>
> I think you should just apply the rmap patch to a vanilla kernel and
> take the resulting vmscan.c, then on the line which does this:
>
> if (PageDirty(page) && page->mapping) {
>
> right at the end of the patch, change it to:
>
> if ((PageDirty(page) || DelallocPage(page)) && page->mapping) {
>
> but I would really have to see the whole file to say for sure.
>
> Steve
>
>
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