Bug 506217

Summary: Implement blkdev_releasepage() to release the buffer_heads and pages after we release private data belonging to a mounted filesystem.
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Reporter: Wade Mealing <wmealing>
Component: kernelAssignee: Eric Sandeen <esandeen>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Red Hat Kernel QE team <kernel-qe>
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Priority: low    
Version: 5.4CC: cward, dzickus, jtluka, moshiro, syeghiay, tao
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Patch that seems to register correctly this time. none

Comment 1 Wade Mealing 2009-06-16 04:59:52 UTC
Back port of patch from of http://marc.info/?l=linux-ext4&m=123099540219696&w=2

Comment 4 RHEL Program Management 2009-06-16 22:21:39 UTC
This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for inclusion in a Red
Hat Enterprise Linux maintenance release.  Product Management has requested
further review of this request by Red Hat Engineering, for potential
inclusion in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux Update release for currently deployed
products.  This request is not yet committed for inclusion in an Update
release.

Comment 12 Wade Mealing 2009-10-07 02:46:17 UTC
Created attachment 363919 [details]
Patch that seems to register correctly this time.

Comment 14 RHEL Program Management 2009-11-25 23:30:13 UTC
This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for inclusion in a Red
Hat Enterprise Linux maintenance release.  Product Management has requested
further review of this request by Red Hat Engineering, for potential
inclusion in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux Update release for currently deployed
products.  This request is not yet committed for inclusion in an Update
release.

Comment 16 Wade Mealing 2009-12-02 01:15:48 UTC
Eric Sandeen posted a modification in the rh-kernel list which doesn't use such a convoluted method of registration.  It seems to solve the same problem.

Comment 17 Don Zickus 2009-12-09 18:11:29 UTC
in kernel-2.6.18-178.el5
You can download this test kernel from http://people.redhat.com/dzickus/el5

Please update the appropriate value in the Verified field
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Comment 20 Chris Ward 2010-02-11 10:15:58 UTC
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Comment 24 errata-xmlrpc 2010-03-30 07:41:55 UTC
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on therefore solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010-0178.html