From: "Chen, Kenneth W" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2006 22:10:52 -0800
> Chen, Kenneth wrote on Wednesday, December 27, 2006 9:55 PM > > 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. > > > Oh, never mind :-( I just didn't create enough write out pressure when > test this. I just saw bug got triggered on a kernel I previously thought > was OK. Besides, I'm pretty sure that from the Debian bug entry it's been established that the dirty-page tracking changes from a few releases ago introduced this problem. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
