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From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, Jon Tollefson <kniht@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	libhugetlbfs-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Libhugetlbfs-devel] Buglet in 16G page handling
Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2008 07:05:07 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1220389507.13010.147.camel@pasglop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080902124442.GD29766@csn.ul.ie>


> Actually, Jon has been hitting an occasional pagetable lock related
> problem. The last theory was that it might be some sort of race but it's
> vaguely possible that this is the issue. Jon?

All hugetlbfs ops should be covered by the big PTL except walking... Can
we have more info about the problem ?

Cheers,
Ben.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-09-02 21:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-09-02  5:05 Buglet in 16G page handling David Gibson
2008-09-02 12:44 ` [Libhugetlbfs-devel] " Mel Gorman
2008-09-02 16:25   ` Nishanth Aravamudan
2008-09-02 21:05   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2008-09-02 22:16     ` Jon Tollefson
2008-09-02 22:53       ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-09-03 14:11         ` Jon Tollefson
2008-09-02 17:12 ` Jon Tollefson
2008-09-03  0:20   ` [Libhugetlbfs-devel] " David Gibson
2008-09-03 22:19     ` Jon Tollefson
2008-09-04  6:22       ` David Gibson
2008-09-04 21:08       ` Jon Tollefson
2008-09-05  1:36         ` David Gibson

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