On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 11:05:24PM +0000, Mel Gorman wrote: > On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 03:28:07PM -0600, Alex Thorlton wrote: > > > If the warning added by that patch does *not* trigger than can you also > > > test this patch? It removes the barriers which should not be necessary > > > and takes a reference tot he page before waiting on the lock. The > > > previous version did not take the reference because otherwise the > > > WARN_ON could not distinguish between a migration waiter and a surprise > > > gup. > > > > Sorry for the delay; been a bit busy. I tested both of these patches on > > top of this one (separately, of course): > > > > http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-mm/msg63919.html > > > > I think that's the one you were referring to, if not send me a pointer > > to the correct one and I'll give it another shot. Both patches still > > segfaulted, so it doesn't appear that either of these solved the > > problem. > > I see. Does THP have to be enabled or does it segfault even with THP > disabled? >
On a semi-related note, is the large machine doing anything with xpmem or anything that depends on MMU notifiers to work properly? I noted while looking at this that THP migration is not invalidating pages which might be confusing a driver depending on it. -- Mel Gorman SUSE Labs -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
