From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264192AbUG2E64 (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Jul 2004 00:58:56 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264236AbUG2E64 (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Jul 2004 00:58:56 -0400 Received: from omx2-ext.sgi.com ([192.48.171.19]:46030 "EHLO omx2.sgi.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264192AbUG2E6y (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Jul 2004 00:58:54 -0400 Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2004 15:54:37 +1000 From: Nathan Scott To: L A Walsh , Chris Wedgwood Cc: Linux-Kernel , linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com Subject: Re: 2.6.7-vanilla-SMP kernel: pagebuf_get: failed to lookup pages Message-ID: <20040729055437.GL800@frodo> References: <40FF0479.6050509@tlinx.org> <20040722001224.GC30595@taniwha.stupidest.org> <40FF0885.7060704@tlinx.org> <20040722003357.GA31163@taniwha.stupidest.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040722003357.GA31163@taniwha.stupidest.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.3i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Jul 21, 2004 at 05:33:57PM -0700, Chris Wedgwood wrote: > On Wed, Jul 21, 2004 at 05:21:25PM -0700, L A Walsh wrote: > > > Will this be included/fixed in 2.6.8? > > i assume that's the intention but i don't know when 2.6.8 is and how > much time the sgi people have before then. my guess is yes though The fix has been included in the 2.6.8-pre/rc kernels for some time now, so yes it'll be in 2.6.8. > > How serious is the problem? The system doesn't seem to panic or > > indicate backup failures. > > not sure, hch can you comment here maybe? This leaked locked pages on metadata readahead failure (which could occur when free memory becomes low), which is serious. cheers. -- Nathan