From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932076Ab1IPSTL (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Sep 2011 14:19:11 -0400 Received: from eazy.amigager.de ([213.239.192.238]:35911 "EHLO eazy.amigager.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753285Ab1IPSTK (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Sep 2011 14:19:10 -0400 Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2011 20:19:22 +0200 From: Tino Keitel To: Hugh Dickins Cc: Shaohua Li , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: echo 3 > /proc/.../drop_caches goes mad with 3.1-rc6, maybe fsnotify related Message-ID: <20110916181922.GA7993@mac.home> Mail-Followup-To: Hugh Dickins , Shaohua Li , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20110915200514.GA30223@mac.home> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 14:42:05 -0700, Hugh Dickins wrote: [...] > Although these stacktraces don't implicate find_get_pages() at all, > please try Shaohua's fix below (see thread: [BUG] infinite loop in > find_get_pages()), which Linus put in his tree yesterday. Hi, thanks, I upgraded to git master c455ea4f122d21c91fcf4c36c3f0c08535ba3ce8 and the problem is gone. Regards, Tino