From: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
To: Chris Petersen <Chris.Petersen@synopsys.com>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com>,
William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>,
Linux-Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: FIXED (was Re: PROBLEM: Blk Dev Cache causing kswapd thrashing)
Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2003 18:08:49 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031210180849.GA13303@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3FD75B8A.21FA59D9@synopsys.com>
On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 12:44:42PM -0500, Chris Petersen wrote:
> It appears the block-device-cache/kswapd problem is indeed fixed in
> 2.4.23 (yay!).
>
> To confuse matters RedHat has released an RPM with 2.4.20-24.7 which
> apparently contains later patches that include the fix.
2.4.20-24.7 contains two patches. Both security issues. (do_brk
and an nptl local DoS), nothing else (vs previous 2.4.20-20.7)
> This can be
> confusing because their 2.4.21-4EL kernel is busted (WRT this bug)
That kernel bears no relation whatsoever to 2.4.20-24.7
It's for a completely different product for one thing, with
very little in common between them (in terms of patches we add).
Dave
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-12-10 18:16 UTC|newest]
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2003-12-10 17:44 ` FIXED (was Re: PROBLEM: Blk Dev Cache causing kswapd thrashing) Chris Petersen
2003-12-10 18:08 ` Dave Jones [this message]
2003-12-10 19:01 ` Chris Petersen
2003-12-10 19:16 ` Dave Jones
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