[Unionfs] patch for a 2.6.23-11-unionfs-rt kernel?

[Paul Hewlett]

Roman Muñoz wrote:
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> Paul Hewlett escribió:
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>> There cannot be a generic patch that will apply to both RT and non-RT
>> kernels because there is no way of automatically detecting that access
>> to nrpages has changed.
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> Yes, I understand it
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>> There is 1 other  place where the unionfs patch had to be modified for
>> the RT kernel but this is covered by a suitable #ifdef CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT
>> statement.
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> Exposing my ignorance and lazyness... not sure about where and how to 
> put this statement. I'll see it tomorrow.
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> (rant) No offense intended, but those problems with -rt patch have 
> been common at least since unionfs1.4 many months ago, and are became 
> boring. What a happy day will be when both these wonderful features 
> get into mainline.
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>> The unionfs patch for 2.6.23-11 has a second reference to nrpages in the
>> function purge_inode_data() in dentry.c. Change this line to
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>> if (mapping_nrpages(&inode->i_data))
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>> This change has gone away in the unionfs patch for 2.6.23-14
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> Thank you very much for your answer
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> Best regards,
>
> Roman

Roman

I have sent the modified patch to Erez at his request...

Paul
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