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From: Lukas Hejtmanek <xhejtman@ics.muni.cz>
To: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: 2.6.28-rc8 big regression in VM
Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2008 10:44:09 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081215094409.GA4422@ics.muni.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081215011645.GA9707@localhost>

On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 09:16:45AM +0800, Wu Fengguang wrote:
> Lukas, could you apply the attached patch, recompile and do
> 
> modprobe filecache
> free; cp /proc/filecache /tmp/a;
> echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches
> free; cp /proc/filecache /tmp/b;
> 
> and send me the outputs a and b?

unfortunately, it causes an oops (0000 [#1] SMP) in d_path + 0x31/0x110, code
48 85 c0 74 2f <48> 8b 40 30 48
rax = 0x100000001

(it does not save the oops into any log, thus I only wrote down possibly most
important clues)

-- 
Lukáš Hejtmánek

  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-12-15  9:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-12-12 18:38 2.6.28-rc8 big regression in VM Lukas Hejtmanek
2008-12-13  1:21 ` Wu Fengguang
2008-12-13  9:58   ` Lukas Hejtmanek
2008-12-13 14:02     ` Wu Fengguang
2008-12-16 21:08       ` Bill Davidsen
2008-12-15  1:16     ` Wu Fengguang
2008-12-15  2:05       ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2008-12-15  9:53         ` Lukas Hejtmanek
2008-12-15 10:56           ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2008-12-15  9:44       ` Lukas Hejtmanek [this message]
2008-12-16  4:59         ` Wu Fengguang
     [not found]           ` <20081216195219.GA4480@ics.muni.cz>
2008-12-17 12:27             ` Wu Fengguang
2008-12-17 12:33               ` Lukas Hejtmanek
2008-12-17 12:44                 ` Wu Fengguang
2008-12-17 12:49                   ` Lukas Hejtmanek
2008-12-17 13:02                     ` Wu Fengguang
2008-12-25 10:50                     ` Wu Fengguang
2008-12-25 10:58                       ` Lukas Hejtmanek
2008-12-25 11:18                         ` Wu Fengguang

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