From: Thomas Hellstrom <thellstrom@vmware.com>
To: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com>
Cc: Chuck Ebbert <cebbert.lkml@gmail.com>,
Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>, Shaohua Li <shli@kernel.org>,
Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>,
Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@canonical.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Linux kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-mm <linux-mm@kvack.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
Hugh Dickens <hughd@google.com>,
"dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org"
<dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org>
Subject: Re: page allocator bug in 3.16?
Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2014 09:15:57 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <542512AD.9070304@vmware.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5424AAD0.9010708@hurleysoftware.com>
On 09/26/2014 01:52 AM, Peter Hurley wrote:
> On 09/25/2014 03:35 PM, Chuck Ebbert wrote:
>> There are six ttm patches queued for 3.16.4:
>>
>> drm-ttm-choose-a-pool-to-shrink-correctly-in-ttm_dma_pool_shrink_scan.patch
>> drm-ttm-fix-handling-of-ttm_pl_flag_topdown-v2.patch
>> drm-ttm-fix-possible-division-by-0-in-ttm_dma_pool_shrink_scan.patch
>> drm-ttm-fix-possible-stack-overflow-by-recursive-shrinker-calls.patch
>> drm-ttm-pass-gfp-flags-in-order-to-avoid-deadlock.patch
>> drm-ttm-use-mutex_trylock-to-avoid-deadlock-inside-shrinker-functions.patch
> Thanks for info, Chuck.
>
> Unfortunately, none of these fix TTM dma allocation doing CMA dma allocation,
> which is the root problem.
>
> Regards,
> Peter Hurley
The problem is not really in TTM but in CMA, There was a guy offering to
fix this in the CMA code but I guess he didn't probably because he
didn't receive any feedback.
/Thomas
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-09-26 7:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-09-25 18:55 page allocator bug in 3.16? Peter Hurley
2014-09-25 19:34 ` Maarten Lankhorst
2014-09-25 19:35 ` Chuck Ebbert
2014-09-25 23:52 ` Peter Hurley
2014-09-26 7:15 ` Thomas Hellstrom [this message]
2014-09-26 10:40 ` Chuck Ebbert
2014-09-26 10:45 ` Thomas Hellstrom
2014-09-26 12:28 ` Rob Clark
2014-09-26 12:34 ` Thomas Hellstrom
2014-09-26 13:40 ` Rob Clark
2014-09-26 12:40 ` Rik van Riel
2014-09-26 14:10 ` Peter Hurley
2014-09-26 15:12 ` Leann Ogasawara
2014-09-27 14:15 ` Peter Hurley
2014-09-25 20:33 ` Alex Deucher
2014-09-25 21:10 ` Peter Hurley
2014-10-01 9:26 ` Maarten Lankhorst
2014-09-25 20:36 ` Peter Hurley
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