From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
To: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
Cc: Daniel Phillips <phillips@bonn-fries.net>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, rsf@us.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [TEST] page tables filling non-highmem
Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2002 19:26:44 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020218032644.GD3511@holomorphy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020215045106.GB26322@holomorphy.com> <E16beDZ-0002jy-00@starship.berlin> <20020218023800.A23743@athlon.random>
In-Reply-To: <20020218023800.A23743@athlon.random>
On Mon, Feb 18, 2002 at 02:38:00AM +0100, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> My tree doesn't lock up hard even without pte-highmem applied. The task
> gets killed. backout pte-highmem, try the same testcase again on my tree
> and you'll see. The oom handling in mainline is deadlock prone, I always
> known this and that's why I always rejected it. Nobody but me
> acklowledged this problem and I spent quite an amount of time convincing
> mainline maintainers about those deadlock flaws of the mainline approch
> but I failed so I giveup waiting for a report like this, just like with
> all the other stuff that is now in my vm patch, 90% of it I tried to
> push it separately into mainline before having to accumulate it.
This is a basic issue. Does the kernel run or does it crash?
Mainline can't live without it. Nothing can.
Cheers,
Bill
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-02-18 3:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-02-15 4:51 [TEST] page tables filling non-highmem William Lee Irwin III
2002-02-15 8:59 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-02-15 8:56 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-02-18 1:38 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-02-18 1:59 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-02-18 3:02 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2002-02-18 12:39 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-02-18 3:26 ` William Lee Irwin III [this message]
2002-02-18 12:27 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-02-18 12:59 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-02-18 13:15 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-02-19 0:06 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-02-18 4:25 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-02-19 0:03 ` William Lee Irwin III
[not found] ` <Pine.LNX.4.33.0202181914350.5124-100000@coffee.psychology.mcmaster.ca>
2002-02-19 0:16 ` William Lee Irwin III
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