From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2008 11:40:18 -0800 (PST) From: Christoph Lameter Subject: Re: SMP-related kernel memory leak In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <6101e8c40802210821w626bc831uaf4c3f66fb097094@mail.gmail.com> <6101e8c40802210825v534f0ce3wf80a18ebd6dee925@mail.gmail.com> <47BDEFB4.1010106@zytor.com> <6101e8c40802220844h2553051bw38154dbad91de1e3@mail.gmail.com> <47BEFD5D.402@zytor.com> <6101e8c40802221512t295566bey5a8f1c21b8751480@mail.gmail.com> <47BF5932.9040200@zytor.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Bart Van Assche Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" , Oliver Pinter , linux-mm@kvack.org, Peter Zijlstra List-ID: On Sat, 23 Feb 2008, Bart Van Assche wrote: > The patch referenced above modifies a single file: > include/asm-generic/tlb.h. I had a look at the git history of Linus' > 2.6.24 tree, and noticed that the cited patch was applied on December > 18, 2007 to Linus' tree by Christoph Lameter. Two weeks later, on > December 27, the change was reverted by Christoph. Christoph, can you > provide us some more background information about why the patch was > reverted ? It did not fix the problem that was reported. Commit 96990a4ae979df9e235d01097d6175759331e88c took its place. -- 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