Linus Torvalds wrote on Wednesday, December 27, 2006 7:05 PM
> On Wed, 27 Dec 2006, David Miller wrote:
> > >
> > > I still don't see _why_, though. But maybe smarter people than me can see
> > > it..
> >
> > FWIW this program definitely triggers the bug for me.
>
> Ok, now that I have something simple to do repeatable stuff with, I can
> say what the pattern is.. It's not all that surprising, but it's still
> worth just stating for the record.
Running the test code, git bisect points its finger at this commit. Reverting
this commit on top of 2.6.20-rc2 doesn't trigger the bug from the test code.
edc79b2a46ed854595e40edcf3f8b37f9f14aa3f is first bad commit
commit edc79b2a46ed854595e40edcf3f8b37f9f14aa3f
Author: Peter Zijlstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Mon Sep 25 23:30:58 2006 -0700
[PATCH] mm: balance dirty pages
Now that we can detect writers of shared mappings, throttle them. Avoids
OOM
by surprise.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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