Re: Oracle 9.2 OOMs again at startup in 2.5.4[78]

[Alessandro Suardi <alessandro.suardi@oracle.com>]

Andrew Morton wrote:
> Alessandro Suardi wrote:
> 
>>...just like it did a few kernels ago (the current->mm issue in 2.5.19
>>  that eventually got fixed in 2.5.30 or thereabouts, introduced for the
>>  bk-enabled by cset 1.373.221.1).
> 
> 
> According to the web interface, 1.373.221.1 is 
> 
> "This patch lets more devices hook up to USB 2.0 hubs, stuff
> like keyboards, mice, hubs that hasn't worked yet"
> 
> so, errr.

The web interface seems to be at fault (or is it your fingers ;)
  from my saved mail with Linus and yourself I have...

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The patch you actually include seems to be a combination of

     ChangeSet 1.373.204.73 2002/05/28 22:01:57 torvalds@home.transmeta.com
       Remove re-use of "struct mm_struct" at execve() time.

       This will eventually allow us to copy argc/argv without
       any intermediate storage (removing current argument size
       limitations).

and

     ChangeSet 1.373.221.1 2002/05/28 22:55:46 torvalds@home.transmeta.com
       Allocate new mm_struct for execve() early, so that we have
       access to it by the time we start copying arguments.
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> 
>>I'll go building a 2.5.44 kernel (think it's the only one I didn't have
>>  too much trouble building / booting in the 2.5.4x series before .47)
>>  and see whether it works or not.
> 
> 
> An `strace -f' of the startup process might reveal something.

will also try that - tomorrow, now time's over @ office :)


Thanks,

--alessandro

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