From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: gandalf@wlug.westbo.se, xhejtman@mail.muni.cz,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Swapoff inifinite loops on 2.6.10-bk (was: .6.10-bk8 swapoff after resume)
Date: Sat, 8 Jan 2005 11:57:59 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050108115759.1e4f7fed.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0501081547260.2688-100000@localhost.localdomain>
Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> wrote:
>
> > I'm pretty sure it's an infinite loop, I left it like that while
> > shaving. It produces the same sound over and over again as the head
> > seeks back in order to try again and again...
>
> You're right, and yes, I could then reproduce it. Looks like I'd only
> been testing on 3levels (HIGHMEM64G), and this only happens on 2levels.
>
> Patch below, please verify it fixes your problems. And please, could
> someone else check I haven't screwed up swapoff on 4levels (x86_64)?
Thanks. I'll do the x86_64 testing.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-01-08 19:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-01-06 13:47 2.6.10-bk8 swapoff after resume Lukas Hejtmanek
2005-01-06 21:14 ` Swapoff inifinite loops on 2.6.10-bk (was: .6.10-bk8 swapoff after resume) Martin Josefsson
2005-01-06 22:00 ` Hugh Dickins
2005-01-07 6:53 ` Martin Josefsson
2005-01-08 16:00 ` Hugh Dickins
2005-01-08 16:23 ` Martin Josefsson
2005-01-08 19:57 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
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