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From: WU Fengguang <wfg@mail.ustc.edu.cn>
To: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [BUGFIX] NULL pointer dereference in __vm_enough_memory()
Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2007 20:27:46 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <386921666.18788@ustc.edu.cn> (raw)
Message-ID: <20070812122746.GA10109@mail.ustc.edu.cn> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070812120902.GA9972@mail.ustc.edu.cn>

Hi Balbir,

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On Sun, Aug 12, 2007 at 05:27:52PM +0530, Balbir Singh wrote:
> For some reason my mailer keeps removing you from the cc.

Or maybe it's my SMTP server's problem. Email systems are complex.

> >>> Thats a valid point. It would be interesting to see what the overcommit
> >>> setting was, when the panic occurred.
> >> FYI, I do have nondefault overcommit settings:
> >>
> >> vm.overcommit_memory = 2
> >> vm.lowmem_reserve_ratio = 1 1
> > 
> > Yes, the bug disappears when changing to default overcommit_memory!
> > 
> 
> Great! So the problem might have existed for some time, but we never
> saw it due to default over commit values? Were you using these values
> for over commit even before?

No I changed it several weeks ago to stop my desktop from freezing.
So yes, the bug may have been there for a while.


       reply	other threads:[~2007-08-12 12:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <46BEF5C0.3080902@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
     [not found] ` <20070812120902.GA9972@mail.ustc.edu.cn>
     [not found]   ` <20070812122746.GA10109@mail.ustc.edu.cn>
2007-08-12 12:27     ` WU Fengguang [this message]
2007-08-12 13:19       ` [BUGFIX] NULL pointer dereference in __vm_enough_memory() Alan Cox
     [not found]         ` <20070812140917.GA13683@mail.ustc.edu.cn>
2007-08-12 14:09           ` WU Fengguang
2007-08-12 15:17             ` Alan Cox
2007-08-12 16:21               ` Cyrill Gorcunov
     [not found]                 ` <20070813002342.GA6908@mail.ustc.edu.cn>
2007-08-13  0:23                   ` WU Fengguang
2007-08-13  9:53                   ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2007-08-13 11:22                     ` Alan Cox
2007-08-13 11:55                       ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2007-08-13  0:14               ` Rene Herman
     [not found]               ` <20070813073853.GA5262@mail.ustc.edu.cn>
2007-08-13  7:38                 ` WU Fengguang
2007-08-13 13:01                   ` [PATCH] fix " Alan Cox
2007-08-14  5:01                     ` Andrew Morton
2007-08-14 17:50                       ` Tobias Diedrich
2007-08-14 17:10     ` [BUGFIX] " Andy Isaacson
     [not found]       ` <20070815085308.GA18959@mail.ustc.edu.cn>
2007-08-15  8:53         ` WU Fengguang
     [not found] <20070811132131.GA13775@mail.ustc.edu.cn>
2007-08-11 13:21 ` Fengguang Wu
2007-08-11 14:30   ` Balbir Singh
2007-08-11 17:00     ` Andrew Morton
2007-08-11 18:01       ` Balbir Singh
2007-08-11 18:13         ` Cyrill Gorcunov
     [not found]         ` <20070812054831.GB8992@mail.ustc.edu.cn>
2007-08-12  5:48           ` WU Fengguang
     [not found]           ` <20070812085808.GA7239@mail.ustc.edu.cn>
2007-08-12  8:58             ` WU Fengguang
2007-08-12  9:25               ` Balbir Singh
2007-08-12 12:23                 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
     [not found]       ` <20070812054606.GA8992@mail.ustc.edu.cn>
2007-08-12  5:46         ` WU Fengguang
2007-08-11 14:17 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
     [not found]   ` <20070812052915.GA6769@mail.ustc.edu.cn>
2007-08-12  5:29     ` Fengguang Wu
2007-08-12  5:45     ` Cyrill Gorcunov

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