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From: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
To: starlight@binnacle.cx
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, bugzilla-daemon@bugzilla.kernel.org,
	bugme-daemon@bugzilla.kernel.org, Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com>,
	Eric B Munson <ebmunson@us.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [Bugme-new] [Bug 13302] New: "bad pmd" on fork() of process with hugepage shared memory segments attached
Date: Thu, 14 May 2009 18:49:48 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090514174947.GA24837@csn.ul.ie> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6.2.5.6.2.20090514131734.05890270@binnacle.cx>

On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 01:20:09PM -0400, starlight@binnacle.cx wrote:
> At 11:59 AM 5/14/2009 +0100, Mel Gorman wrote:
> >Another question on top of this.
> >
> >At any point, do you call madvise(MADV_WILLNEED),
> >fadvise(FADV_WILLNEED) or readahead() on the share memory segment?
>
> Definately no.
> 
> The possibly unusual thing done is that a file is read into 
> something like 30% of the segment, and the remaining pages are 
> not touched.
> 

Ok, I just tried that there - parent writing 30% of the shared memory
before forking but still did not reproduce the problem :(

-- 
Mel Gorman
Part-time Phd Student                          Linux Technology Center
University of Limerick                         IBM Dublin Software Lab

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  reply	other threads:[~2009-05-14 17:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <bug-13302-10286@http.bugzilla.kernel.org/>
2009-05-13 20:08 ` [Bugme-new] [Bug 13302] New: "bad pmd" on fork() of process with hugepage shared memory segments attached Andrew Morton
2009-05-14 10:53   ` Mel Gorman
2009-05-14 10:59     ` Mel Gorman
2009-05-14 17:20       ` starlight
2009-05-14 17:49         ` Mel Gorman [this message]
2009-05-14 18:42           ` starlight
2009-05-14 19:10           ` starlight
2009-05-14 17:16     ` starlight
2009-05-15  5:32 starlight
2009-05-15 14:55 ` Mel Gorman
2009-05-15 15:02   ` starlight
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2009-05-15 18:44 starlight
2009-05-18 16:36 ` Mel Gorman
2009-05-15 18:53 starlight
2009-05-20 11:35 ` Mel Gorman
2009-05-20 14:29   ` Mel Gorman
2009-05-20 14:53   ` Lee Schermerhorn
2009-05-20 15:05     ` Lee Schermerhorn
2009-05-20 15:41       ` Mel Gorman
2009-05-21  0:41         ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2009-05-22 16:41           ` Mel Gorman
2009-05-24 13:44             ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2009-05-25  8:51               ` Mel Gorman
2009-05-25 10:10                 ` Hugh Dickins
2009-05-25 13:17                   ` Mel Gorman

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