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From: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
To: Ben LaHaise <bcrl@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>,
	Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Linux-2.4.5
Date: Sat, 26 May 2001 05:11:56 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010526051156.S9634@athlon.random> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010526043835.R9634@athlon.random> <Pine.LNX.4.33.0105252243570.3806-100000@toomuch.toronto.redhat.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0105252243570.3806-100000@toomuch.toronto.redhat.com>; from bcrl@redhat.com on Fri, May 25, 2001 at 10:49:38PM -0400

On Fri, May 25, 2001 at 10:49:38PM -0400, Ben LaHaise wrote:
> Highmem.  0 free pages in ZONE_NORMAL.  Now try to allocate a buffer_head.

That's a longstanding deadlock, it was there the first time I read
fs/buffer.c, nothing related to highmem, we have it in 2.2 too. Also
getblk is deadlock prone in a smiliar manner.

Can you try to simply change NR_RESERVED to say 200*MAX_BUF_PER_PAGE and
see if it makes a difference? The unused_list logic doesn't give a
guarantee either and it's one of the "hiding" logics, but it was working
pretty well usually, maybe something changed that needs more than 2
pages (16 bh) reserved?

Andrea

  reply	other threads:[~2001-05-26  3:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 76+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-05-25 20:00 [with-PATCH-really] highmem deadlock removal, balancing & cleanup Rik van Riel
2001-05-25 21:12 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-05-25 22:20   ` Rik van Riel
2001-05-25 23:05     ` Linus Torvalds
2001-05-25 23:13     ` Alan Cox
2001-05-25 23:19       ` Rik van Riel
2001-05-26  0:02       ` Linus Torvalds
2001-05-26  0:07         ` Rik van Riel
2001-05-26  0:16           ` Linus Torvalds
2001-05-26  0:23           ` Linus Torvalds
2001-05-26  0:26             ` Rik van Riel
2001-05-26  0:30               ` Linus Torvalds
2001-05-26  0:29         ` Ben LaHaise
2001-05-26  0:34           ` Linus Torvalds
2001-05-26  0:38             ` Rik van Riel
2001-05-26  1:28             ` Linux-2.4.5 Linus Torvalds
2001-05-26  1:35               ` Linux-2.4.5 Rik van Riel
2001-05-26  1:39               ` Linux-2.4.5 Ben LaHaise
2001-05-26  1:59                 ` Linux-2.4.5 Andrea Arcangeli
2001-05-26  2:11                   ` Linux-2.4.5 Ben LaHaise
2001-05-26  2:38                     ` Linux-2.4.5 Andrea Arcangeli
2001-05-26  2:49                       ` Linux-2.4.5 Ben LaHaise
2001-05-26  3:11                         ` Andrea Arcangeli [this message]
2001-05-26  4:22                           ` Linux-2.4.5 Linus Torvalds
2001-05-26  4:31                             ` Linux-2.4.5 Rik van Riel
2001-05-26  8:10                               ` Linux-2.4.5 Linus Torvalds
2001-05-26  9:01                                 ` Linux-2.4.5 Linus Torvalds
2001-05-26  9:18                             ` Linux-2.4.5 arjan
2001-05-26 14:18                             ` Linux-2.4.5 Andrea Arcangeli
2001-05-26 14:21                               ` Linux-2.4.5 Rik van Riel
2001-05-26 14:38                                 ` Linux-2.4.5 Andrea Arcangeli
2001-05-26 14:40                                   ` Linux-2.4.5 Rik van Riel
2001-05-26 15:17                                     ` Linux-2.4.5 Linus Torvalds
2001-05-26 15:28                                       ` Linux-2.4.5 Rik van Riel
2001-05-26 15:59                                         ` Linux-2.4.5 Linus Torvalds
2001-05-26 22:12                                           ` Linux-2.4.5 Marcelo Tosatti
2001-05-27  6:53                                             ` Linux-2.4.5 Marcelo Tosatti
2001-06-03 23:32                                               ` Linux-2.4.5 Linus Torvalds
2001-06-05  2:21                                                 ` Linux-2.4.5 Marcelo Tosatti
2001-05-26 15:09                                 ` Linux-2.4.5 Linus Torvalds
2001-05-26 15:18                                   ` Linux-2.4.5 Rik van Riel
2001-05-26 15:24                                     ` Linux-2.4.5 Andrea Arcangeli
2001-05-26 15:26                                       ` Linux-2.4.5 Rik van Riel
2001-05-26 15:40                                         ` Linux-2.4.5 Andrea Arcangeli
2001-05-26  4:45                           ` Linux-2.4.5 Rik van Riel
2001-05-26  4:47                             ` Linux-2.4.5 Rik van Riel
2001-05-26  6:07                               ` Linux-2.4.5 Ben LaHaise
2001-05-26 14:32                             ` Linux-2.4.5 Andrea Arcangeli
2001-05-26 14:36                               ` Linux-2.4.5 Rik van Riel
2001-05-26 15:03                                 ` Linux-2.4.5 Andrea Arcangeli
2001-05-26 15:08                                   ` Linux-2.4.5 Rik van Riel
2001-05-26 15:20                                     ` Linux-2.4.5 Andrea Arcangeli
2001-05-26 15:41                     ` Linux-2.4.5 Rik van Riel
2001-05-26  0:42           ` [with-PATCH-really] highmem deadlock removal, balancing & cleanup Andrea Arcangeli
2001-05-26  0:52             ` Ben LaHaise
2001-05-26  1:27               ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-05-26  1:38                 ` Ben LaHaise
2001-05-26  1:49                   ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-05-26  2:01                     ` Ben LaHaise
2001-05-26  2:26                       ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-05-26  2:40                         ` Ben LaHaise
2001-05-26  1:43             ` Rik van Riel
2001-05-25 22:35   ` Rik van Riel
2001-05-25 23:07     ` Linus Torvalds
     [not found] <20010526171459.Y9634@athlon.random>
2001-05-26 15:22 ` Linux-2.4.5 Rik van Riel
2001-05-26 15:30   ` Linux-2.4.5 Andrea Arcangeli
2001-05-26 15:51     ` Linux-2.4.5 Rik van Riel
2001-05-26 16:04       ` Linux-2.4.5 Andrea Arcangeli
2001-05-26 15:23 ` Linux-2.4.5 Linus Torvalds
2001-05-26 15:31   ` Linux-2.4.5 Rik van Riel
2001-05-26 15:38   ` Linux-2.4.5 Andrea Arcangeli
2001-05-26 16:03     ` Linux-2.4.5 Linus Torvalds
2001-05-26 18:11 ` Linux-2.4.5 Ben LaHaise
2001-05-26 18:31   ` Linux-2.4.5 Andrea Arcangeli
2001-05-26 19:42     ` Linux-2.4.5 Ingo Molnar
2001-05-26 19:56       ` Linux-2.4.5 Andrea Arcangeli

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