Re: 2.5.70-mm1

[Andrew Morton]

"Martin J. Bligh" <[e-mail]> wrote:
>
> Well, that just seems to make the box hang in SDET (actually, moving it
>  outside lock_kernel makes it hang in a similar way). Not sure it's 
>  *caused* by this ... it might just change timing enough to trigger it.

Yes, sorry.  Looks like you hit the filemap.c screwup.  The below should
fix it.

--- 25/mm/filemap.c~generic_file_write-commit_write-fix	2003-05-30 04:01:19.000000000 -0700
+++ 25-akpm/mm/filemap.c	2003-05-30 04:04:11.000000000 -0700
@@ -1718,10 +1718,9 @@ generic_file_aio_write_nolock(struct kio
 			copied = filemap_copy_from_user_iovec(page, offset,
 						cur_iov, iov_base, bytes);
 		flush_dcache_page(page);
+		status = a_ops->commit_write(file, page, offset,
+						offset + copied);
 		if (likely(copied > 0)) {
-			status = a_ops->commit_write(file, page, offset,
-						     offset + copied);
-
 			if (!status)
 				status = copied;
 

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