Re: 2.4 SRMMU bug revisited

[Tomas Szepe <szepe@pinerecords.com>]

> --- 2.4.19-pre4/kernel/fork.c	Thu Mar 28 19:49:36 2002
> +++ tortoise-19-pre4/kernel/fork.c	Sun Apr 21 22:01:18 2002
> @@ -336,6 +336,9 @@
>  	if (!mm_init(mm))
>  		goto fail_nomem;
>  
> +	if (init_new_context(tsk,mm))
> +		goto free_pt;
> +
>  	down_write(&oldmm->mmap_sem);
>  	retval = dup_mmap(mm);
>  	up_write(&oldmm->mmap_sem);
> @@ -347,9 +350,6 @@
>  	 * child gets a private LDT (if there was an LDT in the parent)
>  	 */
>  	copy_segments(tsk, mm);
> -
> -	if (init_new_context(tsk,mm))
> -		goto free_pt;
>  
>  good_mm:
>  	tsk->mm = mm;


A big, big thankyou to Colin.

This patch indeed makes difference. I stressed -pre9 as much as I could
(simultaneous reading from raid devices - ext3/reiserfs/ext2, NFS traffic,
sendmail+apache fork storms... you name it, I ran it, all at the same time)
and the kernel lives. Processes still get killed by VM much earlier than
they should (100+ MB RAM free), but that's not critical.

A nice conclusion to this thread, isn't it? :)

T.