On Wed, 25 Jun 2014, Stefan Bader wrote: > Heiko and I both had the same issue. Since some x86 hardware also reaches a > lot > of CPUs (hyperthreads included), we bumped the possible number of CPUs to 256 > at > least for the 64bit kernel. And that resulted in failed accesses to /proc/stat > when memory became fragmented. > So the first patch will avoid this on most systems. I have not seen this > myself, > but I would expect him to be happy with 1/2 already. For really excessive > hardware 2/2 will close the gap. > Since this is no critical bug, I am fine with 3.17, too. I have not done so, > yet, but I could let our reporter try the patches (again, probably not > verifying > the second part). Just waited to do so to see whether the code settles down to > these changes. >
Ok, thanks. Looks like proc-stat-convert-to-single_open_size.patch fs-seq_file-fallback-to-vmalloc-allocation.patch are destined for 3.17. -- 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/
