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 419FF6B016A for ; Thu, 1 Sep 2011 06:16:40 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2011 11:16:23 +0100 From: Russell King - ARM Linux Subject: Re: Kernel panic in 2.6.35.12 kernel Message-ID: <20110901101623.GB29729@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: naveen yadav Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-mm On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 12:08:12PM +0530, naveen yadav wrote: > adding to mm mailing list I think rather than just adding a mailing list to a message containing almost no useful content, you may do better to start a new thread including the linux-mm mailing list, describing the problem that you're seeing, the kernel messages plus the test program all in a single message. I don't think the problem you're reporting is ARM specific - to me it looks like something is holding on to processes pages after they've been killed, and only giving them back after the OOM killer has killed off the last killable task. That's certainly what the "xxx free pages" values hint at. -- 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/ . Fight unfair telecom internet charges in Canada: sign http://stopthemeter.ca/ Don't email: email@kvack.org