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From: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
To: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>,
	Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@gmail.com>,
	hannes <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
	mhocko@suse.cz, bsingharora@gmail.com,
	Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	cgroups@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [BUG] kernel BUG at mm/memcontrol.c:1074!
Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2012 16:49:19 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120119164919.GE3143@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LSU.2.00.1201182100010.2830@eggly.anvils>

On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 09:16:09PM -0800, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> > 
> > Another question is who pushes pages to LRU before setting pc->mem_cgroup..
> > Anyway, I think we need to fix memcg to be LRU_IMMEDIATE aware.
> 
> I don't think so: Mel agreed that the patch could not go forward as is,
> without an additional pageflag, and asked Andrew to drop it from mmotm
> in mail on 29th December (I didn't notice an mm-commits message to say
> akpm did drop it, and marc is blacked out in protest for today, so I
> cannot check: but certainly akpm left it out of his push to Linus).
> 
> Oh, and Mel noticed another bug in it on the 30th, that the PageLRU
> check in the function you quote above is wrong: see PATCH 11/11 thread.
> 

Yes, that patch is broken. According to the mm-commits list, it was
"withdrawn" on December 30th. I do not know why it is still in
linux-next but AFAIK, it is not expected to end up in mainline. I do not
have a fixed version of the patch at the moment.

-- 
Mel Gorman
SUSE Labs

  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-01-19 16:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-01-19  5:10 [BUG] kernel BUG at mm/memcontrol.c:1074! Sasha Levin
2012-01-19  3:23 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2012-01-19  3:41   ` Hugh Dickins
2012-01-19  4:03     ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2012-01-19  5:16       ` Hugh Dickins
2012-01-19  5:29         ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2012-01-19  6:59           ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2012-01-19 15:05         ` Sasha Levin
2012-01-19 16:49         ` Mel Gorman [this message]
2012-01-19  5:52 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2012-01-19  6:44   ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki

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