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From: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
To: Paul Gortmaker <p_gortmaker@yahoo.com>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>, <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Linux 2.4.21-pre3-ac4 [PATCH]
Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2003 13:21:14 +0000 (GMT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0301211306550.1494-100000@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3E2D2BEA.2AC873DE@yahoo.com>

On Tue, 21 Jan 2003, Paul Gortmaker wrote:
> 
> Your compiler must really like you, seeing as it would barf on any 
> significant I/O here.  Somewhere along the line, somebody removed
> the INIT_LIST_HEAD for current->local_pages from fork.c and didn't
> put it back somewhere else (like INIT_TASK or whatever was in mind.)

Yes, I posted the same patch a couple of days ago.  We've now had
several confirmations (for which thanks) that it fixes __free_pages_ok
oops many were seeing in 2.4.21-pre3-ac.  (But the problem was in
allocating memory when low, rather than in significant I/O.)

Hugh


  reply	other threads:[~2003-01-21 13:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-01-12 18:07 Linux 2.4.21-pre3-ac4 Alan Cox
2003-01-12 19:29 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
     [not found]   ` <1042403235.16288.14.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk>
2003-01-12 19:51     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2003-01-12 19:57       ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2003-01-12 20:51         ` Alan Cox
2003-01-13 16:56           ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2003-01-12 20:40       ` Alan Cox
2003-01-12 20:02         ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2003-01-13 18:49       ` Ross Biro
2003-01-13 19:03         ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2003-01-13 19:19           ` Ross Biro
2003-01-13 19:32             ` Ross Biro
2003-01-13 21:05               ` Alan Cox
2003-01-13 20:36                 ` Ross Biro
2003-01-13 19:46             ` Alan Cox
2003-01-14 17:38               ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2003-01-14 17:49                 ` Ross Biro
2003-01-14 17:52                   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2003-01-14 21:17                     ` Andre Hedrick
2003-01-15  0:23                       ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2003-01-15  5:07                         ` Andre Hedrick
     [not found]                 ` <1043105473.12609.5.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk>
2003-01-21 17:07                   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2003-01-13 20:56             ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2003-01-13 21:36               ` Ross Biro
2003-01-14  1:35                 ` Ross Biro
2003-01-14  1:44                   ` Andre Hedrick
2003-01-14  9:18                   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2003-01-20  6:13                   ` Alan Cox
2003-01-13 19:34           ` John Alvord
2003-01-13 19:48             ` Ross Biro
2003-01-13 21:24           ` Jeff Garzik
2003-01-13 21:40             ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-01-13 22:02               ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2003-01-13 22:07               ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2003-01-14  1:20                 ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-01-14  9:06                   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2003-01-14 14:04                     ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-01-14 14:35                       ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2003-01-21 11:15 ` Linux 2.4.21-pre3-ac4 [PATCH] Paul Gortmaker
2003-01-21 13:21   ` Hugh Dickins [this message]
2003-01-21 11:46 ` small patch for Via Pro 266T agp-support Jurriaan

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