From: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
To: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>, Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>,
Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>,
heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com, sachinp@in.ibm.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] slqb: Do not use DEFINE_PER_CPU for per-node data
Date: Sun, 20 Sep 2009 13:12:08 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4AB5FFF8.7000602@cs.helsinki.fi> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4AB5FD4D.3070005@kernel.org>
Tejun Heo wrote:
> Pekka Enberg wrote:
>> On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 10:34 PM, Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> wrote:
>>> SLQB used a seemingly nice hack to allocate per-node data for the statically
>>> initialised caches. Unfortunately, due to some unknown per-cpu
>>> optimisation, these regions are being reused by something else as the
>>> per-node data is getting randomly scrambled. This patch fixes the
>>> problem but it's not fully understood *why* it fixes the problem at the
>>> moment.
>> Ouch, that sounds bad. I guess it's architecture specific bug as x86
>> works ok? Lets CC Tejun.
>
> Is the corruption being seen on ppc or s390?
On ppc.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-09-20 10:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-09-18 19:34 [RFC PATCH 0/3] Hatchet job for SLQB on memoryless configurations Mel Gorman
2009-09-18 19:34 ` [PATCH 1/3] slqb: Do not use DEFINE_PER_CPU for per-node data Mel Gorman
2009-09-20 8:45 ` Pekka Enberg
2009-09-20 10:00 ` Tejun Heo
2009-09-20 10:12 ` Pekka Enberg [this message]
2009-09-20 15:55 ` Tejun Heo
2009-09-21 6:24 ` Pekka Enberg
2009-09-21 8:46 ` Mel Gorman
2009-09-21 8:30 ` Sachin Sant
2009-09-21 8:42 ` Mel Gorman
2009-09-21 9:00 ` Tejun Heo
2009-09-21 9:44 ` Mel Gorman
2009-09-21 9:53 ` Tejun Heo
2009-09-21 10:04 ` Mel Gorman
2009-09-21 9:02 ` Sachin Sant
2009-09-21 9:09 ` Mel Gorman
2009-09-21 13:04 ` Mel Gorman
2009-09-21 13:31 ` Pekka Enberg
2009-09-21 13:45 ` Tejun Heo
2009-09-21 13:57 ` Mel Gorman
2009-09-21 23:54 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2009-09-20 14:04 ` Mel Gorman
2009-09-18 19:34 ` [PATCH 2/3] slqb: Treat pages freed on a memoryless node as local node Mel Gorman
2009-09-18 21:01 ` Christoph Lameter
2009-09-19 11:46 ` Mel Gorman
2009-09-21 17:34 ` Lee Schermerhorn
2009-09-22 13:33 ` Mel Gorman
2009-09-22 18:29 ` Lee Schermerhorn
2009-09-18 19:34 ` [PATCH 3/3] slqb: Allow SLQB to be used on PPC and S390 Mel Gorman
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