From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail137.messagelabs.com (mail137.messagelabs.com [216.82.249.19]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 86C596B005C for ; Wed, 14 Jan 2009 16:55:44 -0500 (EST) Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC] Lost wakeups from lock_page_killable() From: Chris Mason In-Reply-To: <1231964632.8269.47.camel@think.oraclecorp.com> References: <1231964632.8269.47.camel@think.oraclecorp.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 16:55:31 -0500 Message-Id: <1231970131.8269.52.camel@think.oraclecorp.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: linux-mm@kvack.org Cc: Peter Zijlstra , Matthew Wilcox , "chuck.lever" List-ID: On Wed, 2009-01-14 at 15:23 -0500, Chris Mason wrote: > The patch below is entirely untested but may do a better job of > explaining what I think the bug is. I'm hoping I can trigger it locally > with a few dd commands mixed with a lot of kill commands. > I've tried many variations but haven't hit it locally yet. Hopefully testers at oracle can confirm the patch fixes things for them, but the runs take about a day. -chris -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org