From: Nathan Scott <nathans@sgi.com>
To: L A Walsh <lkml@tlinx.org>, Chris Wedgwood <cw@f00f.org>
Cc: Linux-Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: 2.6.7-vanilla-SMP kernel: pagebuf_get: failed to lookup pages
Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2004 15:54:37 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040729055437.GL800@frodo> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040722003357.GA31163@taniwha.stupidest.org>
On Wed, Jul 21, 2004 at 05:33:57PM -0700, Chris Wedgwood wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 21, 2004 at 05:21:25PM -0700, L A Walsh wrote:
>
> > Will this be included/fixed in 2.6.8?
>
> i assume that's the intention but i don't know when 2.6.8 is and how
> much time the sgi people have before then. my guess is yes though
The fix has been included in the 2.6.8-pre/rc kernels for some
time now, so yes it'll be in 2.6.8.
> > How serious is the problem? The system doesn't seem to panic or
> > indicate backup failures.
>
> not sure, hch can you comment here maybe?
This leaked locked pages on metadata readahead failure (which
could occur when free memory becomes low), which is serious.
cheers.
--
Nathan
prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-07-29 4:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-07-22 0:04 2.6.7-vanilla-SMP kernel: pagebuf_get: failed to lookup pages L A Walsh
2004-07-22 0:12 ` Chris Wedgwood
2004-07-22 0:21 ` L A Walsh
2004-07-22 0:33 ` Chris Wedgwood
2004-07-29 5:54 ` Nathan Scott [this message]
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