From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>,
a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
mpm@selenic.com, Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Subject: Re: [patch] mm: tiny-shmem fix lor, mmap_sem vs i_mutex
Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2008 12:29:01 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <48D2ABFD.3040103@goop.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080918111226.GD29968@elte.hu>
Ingo Molnar wrote:
> in 7 days that's about 7000 random bootups, 20% of which had TINY_SHMEM
> enabled, half 32-bit, half 64-bit x86. It did not blow up in any way
> that would have prevented the kernel from building its next random
> version from within itself and it did not produce any kernel messages
> with various random kernel debug, compile and boot options.
>
Does anything in that workload actually use shared memory?
J
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-09-18 19:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-09-10 11:37 [patch] x86: some lock annotations for user copy paths Nick Piggin
2008-09-10 11:41 ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-09-10 11:47 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-09-10 11:50 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-09-10 12:12 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-09-10 12:32 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-09-10 15:12 ` Nick Piggin
2008-09-10 14:48 ` Nick Piggin
2008-09-10 15:01 ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-09-10 15:17 ` Nick Piggin
2008-09-10 15:26 ` Nick Piggin
2008-09-11 8:27 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-09-11 10:43 ` Nick Piggin
2008-09-12 9:24 ` [PATCH] sysfs: fix deadlock Ingo Molnar
2008-09-14 22:02 ` Nick Piggin
2008-09-15 9:15 ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-09-14 7:39 ` [lockdep] possible circular locking, between &mm->mmap_sem and &dev->ev_mutex Ingo Molnar
2008-09-14 7:44 ` Andrew Morton
2008-09-14 8:06 ` [patch] mm: fix locking, inotify_read's ev_mutex vs do_page_fault's mmap_sem Ingo Molnar
2008-09-14 22:12 ` [patch] mm: tiny-shmem fix lor, mmap_sem vs i_mutex Nick Piggin
2008-09-17 20:14 ` Andrew Morton
2008-09-17 20:46 ` Matt Mackall
2008-09-18 11:12 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-09-18 19:29 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge [this message]
2008-09-18 21:11 ` Matt Mackall
2008-09-20 2:18 ` Dave Hansen
2008-09-20 16:12 ` Hugh Dickins
2008-09-22 14:54 ` David Howells
2008-09-23 5:32 ` Nick Piggin
2008-09-24 18:18 ` David Howells
2008-09-24 18:29 ` Matt Mackall
2008-09-24 18:56 ` David Howells
2008-09-24 19:11 ` Matt Mackall
2008-09-24 19:26 ` David Howells
2008-09-24 19:41 ` Hugh Dickins
2008-09-24 19:59 ` David Howells
2008-09-24 23:43 ` Hugh Dickins
2008-09-24 19:29 ` Hugh Dickins
2008-09-24 19:47 ` Andrew Morton
2008-09-22 15:14 ` Dave Hansen
2008-09-19 8:40 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-09-14 21:36 ` [lockdep] possible circular locking, between &mm->mmap_sem and &dev->ev_mutex Nick Piggin
2008-09-10 14:30 ` [patch] x86: some lock annotations for user copy paths Nick Piggin
2008-09-10 14:31 ` Andi Kleen
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