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From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
To: "Chen, Kenneth W" <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: More bug fix in mm/hugetlb.c - fix try_to_free_low()
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2004 12:42:43 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040623194243.GB1552@holomorphy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200406231931.i5NJVeY10040@unix-os.sc.intel.com>

On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 12:33:00PM -0700, Chen, Kenneth W wrote:
> The argument "count" passed to try_to_free_low() is the config parameter
> for desired hugetlb page pool size.  But the implementation took that
> input argument as number of pages to free. It also decrement the config
> parameter as well.  All give random behavior depend on how many hugetlb
> pages are in normal/highmem zone.
> A two line fix in try_to_free_low() would be:

Thanks for cleaning this up; there hasn't been much apparent interest
here lately so I've not gotten much in the way of bugreports to work.

I suspect a general hardening effort should go on here. I'll go about
cleaning up other arches, too.


-- wli

  reply	other threads:[~2004-06-23 19:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-06-23 19:33 More bug fix in mm/hugetlb.c - fix try_to_free_low() Chen, Kenneth W
2004-06-23 19:42 ` William Lee Irwin III [this message]
2004-06-23 21:50   ` Chen, Kenneth W
2004-06-23 22:17   ` Keith Owens
2004-06-23 22:24     ` Chen, Kenneth W
2004-06-23 22:35     ` William Lee Irwin III

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