From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261685AbVCVT0J (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Mar 2005 14:26:09 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261702AbVCVTZh (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Mar 2005 14:25:37 -0500 Received: from dsl027-180-174.sfo1.dsl.speakeasy.net ([216.27.180.174]:32472 "EHLO cheetah.davemloft.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261691AbVCVTZD (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Mar 2005 14:25:03 -0500 Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2005 11:23:29 -0800 From: "David S. Miller" To: "David S. Miller" Cc: hugh@veritas.com, akpm@osdl.org, nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au, tony.luck@intel.com, benh@kernel.crashing.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/5] freepgt: free_pgtables use vma list Message-Id: <20050322112329.70bde057.davem@davemloft.net> In-Reply-To: <20050322112125.0330c4ee.davem@davemloft.net> References: <20050322034053.311b10e6.akpm@osdl.org> <20050322110144.3a3002d9.davem@davemloft.net> <20050322112125.0330c4ee.davem@davemloft.net> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 1.0.1 (GTK+ 1.2.10; sparc-unknown-linux-gnu) X-Face: "_;p5u5aPsO,_Vsx"^v-pEq09'CU4&Dc1$fQExov$62l60cgCc%FnIwD=.UF^a>?5'9Kn[;433QFVV9M..2eN.@4ZWPGbdi<=?[:T>y?SD(R*-3It"Vj:)"dP Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 22 Mar 2005 11:21:25 -0800 "David S. Miller" wrote: > I'm trying to analyze my traces some more. I think I see what's going wrong. On the first address space traversal (free_pgd_range()), we clear out the pgd, even though there are still more PMD's to process in that PGD. So the future loops never do anything since the PGD is cleared out already.