From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751156AbWDZID2 (ORCPT ); Wed, 26 Apr 2006 04:03:28 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751182AbWDZID2 (ORCPT ); Wed, 26 Apr 2006 04:03:28 -0400 Received: from emailhub.stusta.mhn.de ([141.84.69.5]:30994 "HELO mailout.stusta.mhn.de") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1751156AbWDZID1 (ORCPT ); Wed, 26 Apr 2006 04:03:27 -0400 Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2006 10:03:26 +0200 From: Adrian Bunk To: Andi Kleen Cc: David Wilk , Chris Wright , Greg KH , Marcelo Tosatti , stable@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@osdl.org Subject: Re: [stable] 2.6.16.6 breaks java... sort of Message-ID: <20060426080326.GD9359@stusta.de> References: <20060419192803.GA19852@kroah.com> <20060421192743.GH3061@sorel.sous-sol.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11+cvs20060403 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Apr 26, 2006 at 07:12:43AM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: > "David Wilk" writes: > > > Ok, I think I need to apologize to everyone here. I have found the > > problem, and it is not with your patch, Hugh. For some reason, the > > config for my 2.6.16.7 source tree had a 1G/3G user/kernel split > > configured. This is very bizaar as I copy my .config from tree to > > tree to avoid any changes in the configuration of my test kernels. > > This just shows this dreaded VMSPLIT config was a bad idea in the first > place. There was a reason we didn't have it for such a long time (too > many users get it wrong) and such occurrences just show again that this > is still true. > > IMHO it would be best to just remove that option again and require > users who really want to change this to patch their kernels again. > > At the very least it should be probably made dependent on CONFIG_EMBEDDED. NAK, EMBEDDED has a different semantics (space savings in memory limited situations) that does not apply to this option. > -Andi >... cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed