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
next prev parent 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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