From: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
To: balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
linux-mm <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Subject: Re: 2.6.23-rc4-mm1 memory controller BUG_ON()
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2007 13:54:09 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1189716849.17236.1712.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <46E99BDE.9000602@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
On Fri, 2007-09-14 at 01:51 +0530, Balbir Singh wrote:
> Dave Hansen wrote:
> > Looks like somebody is holding a lock while trying to do a
> > mem_container_charge(), and the mem_container_charge() call is doing
> an
> > allocation. Naughty.
> >
> > I'm digging into it a bit more, but thought I'd report it, first.
> >
>
> Hi, Dave,
>
> Thanks for reporting this. I sent out a patch to fix this problem
> (suggested by Nick Piggin). The patch is available at
>
> http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/9/12/113
>
> Could you try the patch and check if the problem goes away?
Balbir and I had a chat about this on IRC. Those patches don't seem to
fix it. But, I'm getting Balbir hooked up with the kvm instance that I
ran this in along with my .config.
-- Dave
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-09-13 20:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-09-13 19:34 2.6.23-rc4-mm1 memory controller BUG_ON() Dave Hansen
2007-09-13 19:51 ` Dave Hansen
2007-09-13 20:24 ` Balbir Singh
2007-09-13 20:21 ` Balbir Singh
2007-09-13 20:54 ` Dave Hansen [this message]
2007-09-14 8:49 ` Balbir Singh
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