Re: 2.6.24-rc5-mm1: problems with cat /proc/kpageflags

Matt Mackall
2007-12-20T17:46:16Z

On Thu, Dec 20, 2007 at 04:53:59AM -0800, David Miller wrote:
> From: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
> Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2007 08:55:54 -0600
>
> > On Sun, Dec 16, 2007 at 10:39:17PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > Actually, you may only need these two:
> >
> > > maps4-add-proc-kpagecount-interface.patch
> > > maps4-add-proc-kpageflags-interface.patch
>
> Yes these two were enough, and exporting fs/proc/base.c's
> mem_lseek().
>
> As hard as I try, I can't reproduce this at all. I tried
> both on my workstation and my niagara boxes.

That's good to know, I was having a very hard time imagining how the
kpagecount code could be going south.

> It must be other needle in the 30MB+ -mm haystack. :-(

Have we seen a config for the broken machine? Perhaps that'll help us
make a guess..

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