From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755150AbXHAPtl (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Aug 2007 11:49:41 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755839AbXHAPta (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Aug 2007 11:49:30 -0400 Received: from rgminet01.oracle.com ([148.87.113.118]:14373 "EHLO rgminet01.oracle.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932777AbXHAPt3 (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Aug 2007 11:49:29 -0400 Message-ID: <46B0ACC5.6010904@oracle.com> Date: Wed, 01 Aug 2007 08:54:45 -0700 From: Randy Dunlap User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.5 (X11/20060719) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Nish Aravamudan CC: Zan Lynx , Linux Kernel Subject: Re: 2.6.22-rc1-mm1 huge pages VM freeze (maybe?) References: <1185918261.6981.13.camel@localhost> <20070731150245.5932b763.randy.dunlap@oracle.com> <29495f1d0708010845x446f7823qcfe2c5244b604078@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <29495f1d0708010845x446f7823qcfe2c5244b604078@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Whitelist: TRUE X-Whitelist: TRUE Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Nish Aravamudan wrote: > On 7/31/07, Randy Dunlap wrote: >> On Tue, 31 Jul 2007 15:44:21 -0600 Zan Lynx wrote: >> >>> I was playing with huge pages and libhugetlbfs. Small programs like >>> "ls" work fine. I tried running Evolution through libhugetlbfs and the >>> system slowly stops running. One interesting thing is the "ps" command, >>> it gets stuck like this: >> Do you mean 2.6.22-rc1-mm1 or 2.6.23-rc1-mm1? >> >> There was a hugepage problem fixed very recently, in 2.6.23-rc1 IIRC. > > Actually fixed just after 2.6.23-rc1: > > git describe 5ab3ee7b1cd5c91eb2272764f9d7d1fe4749681e > v2.6.23-rc1-14-g5ab3ee7 Looks to me like Andrew included Ken's patch in his rc1-mm1 anyway, so that shouldn't be the issue. Or did I not read mm/hugetlb.c correctly? -- ~Randy *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code ***