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From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
To: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
Cc: Daniel Phillips <phillips@bonn-fries.net>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, rsf@us.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [TEST] page tables filling non-highmem
Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2002 19:26:44 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020218032644.GD3511@holomorphy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020215045106.GB26322@holomorphy.com> <E16beDZ-0002jy-00@starship.berlin> <20020218023800.A23743@athlon.random>
In-Reply-To: <20020218023800.A23743@athlon.random>

On Mon, Feb 18, 2002 at 02:38:00AM +0100, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> My tree doesn't lock up hard even without pte-highmem applied.  The task
> gets killed. backout pte-highmem, try the same testcase again on my tree
> and you'll see. The oom handling in mainline is deadlock prone, I always
> known this and that's why I always rejected it. Nobody but me
> acklowledged this problem and I spent quite an amount of time convincing
> mainline maintainers about those deadlock flaws of the mainline approch
> but I failed so I giveup waiting for a report like this, just like with
> all the other stuff that is now in my vm patch, 90% of it I tried to
> push it separately into mainline before having to accumulate it.

This is a basic issue. Does the kernel run or does it crash?

Mainline can't live without it. Nothing can.


Cheers,
Bill

  parent reply	other threads:[~2002-02-18  3:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-02-15  4:51 [TEST] page tables filling non-highmem William Lee Irwin III
2002-02-15  8:59 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-02-15  8:56   ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-02-18  1:38   ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-02-18  1:59     ` Daniel Phillips
2002-02-18  3:02       ` Marcelo Tosatti
2002-02-18 12:39       ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-02-18  3:26     ` William Lee Irwin III [this message]
2002-02-18 12:27       ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-02-18 12:59         ` Daniel Phillips
2002-02-18 13:15           ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-02-19  0:06             ` Daniel Phillips
2002-02-18  4:25     ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-02-19  0:03 ` William Lee Irwin III
     [not found]   ` <Pine.LNX.4.33.0202181914350.5124-100000@coffee.psychology.mcmaster.ca>
2002-02-19  0:16     ` William Lee Irwin III

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