Re: Linux 2.6.23-rc9 and a heads-up for the 2.6.24 series..

[Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>]

On Tue, 2007-10-02 at 18:09 -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote:
> Mel Gorman wrote:
> > On (02/10/07 14:15), Ingo Molnar didst pronounce:
> >> * Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Dirt. Booting with "profile=sleep,2" is broken in 2.6.23-rc9 and 
> >>> 2.6.23-rc8 but working in 2.6.22. I was checking it out as part of a 
> >>> discussion in another thread and noticed it broken in -mm as well 
> >>> (2.6.23-rc8-mm2). Bisect is in progress but suggestions as to the 
> >>> prime candidates are welcome or preferably, pointing out that I'm an 
> >>> idiot because I missed twiddling some config change.
> >> Mel, does the patch below fix this bug for you? (Note: you will need to 
> >> enable CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS=y too.)
> >>
> > 
> > Nice one Ingo - got it first try. The problem commit was
> > dd41f596cda0d7d6e4a8b139ffdfabcefdd46528 and it's clear that the code removed
> > in this commit is put back by this latest patch.  When applied, profile=sleep
> > works as long as CONFIG_SCHEDSTAT is set.
> > 
> And if it isn't set? I can easily see building a new kernel with stats 
> off and forgetting to change the boot options.
> 

If CONFIG_SCHEDSTAT is off and profile=sleep is set, you see with Ingo's
patch and readprofile;

     0 *unknown*
     0 total                                      0.0000

That is a tad confusing hence my follow-up patch which would say
"/proc/profile" doesn't exist when readprofile is used and the warning
in dmesg.

-- 
Mel Gorman