On Wed, Nov 07, 2001 at 09:00:26PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Mike Fedyk wrote:
> >
> > >
> >
> > I am running unpatched 2.4.14 now.
> >
> > Do you still want me to try this patch now that you know I have been able to
> > see the problem with 2.2.14+ext3?
> >
>
> It's OK - I can reproduce it easily anyway.
>
> There are two things here. Recent -ac kernels had a merge
> bug down in the /proc code which caused `Cached:' to go
> negative. It was recently fixed.
>
> And quite independently, current ext3 for Linus kernels now has a
> bug which causes the `buffermem_pages' number to get too large.
> This has the exact same effect: `Cached:' goes negative.
>
> The buffermem_pages counter is purely for reporting - no VM decisions
> are based on its value. But if it worries you, just remove line 1933 of fs/jbd/transaction.c.
Applied.
Here's the patch.
--- 2.4.14-ext3_0.9.15-2414/fs/jbd/transaction.c~ Wed Nov 7 22:41:13 2001
+++ 2.4.14-ext3_0.9.15-2414/fs/jbd/transaction.c Wed Nov 7 22:43:14 2001
@@ -1930,7 +1930,6 @@
if (!offset) {
if (!may_free || !try_to_free_buffers(page, 0)) {
- atomic_inc(&buffermem_pages);
return 0;
}
J_ASSERT(page->buffers == NULL);
I'll run it overnight, and test it tomorrow...
Mike
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