linux-kernel - Re: [stable] patch mm-fix-committed_as-underflow-on-large-nr_cpus-environment.patch added to 2.6.29-stable tree

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Date:	Wed, 6 May 2009 09:37:31 -0700
From:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
To:	Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>
Cc:	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>,
	cl@...ux-foundation.org, mel@....ul.ie,
	Stefan Lippers-Hollmann <s.L-H@....de>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, dave@...ux.vnet.ibm.com,
	ebmunson@...ibm.com, akpm@...ux-foundation.org, stable@...nel.org
Subject: Re: [stable] patch
	mm-fix-committed_as-underflow-on-large-nr_cpus-environment.patch
	added to 2.6.29-stable tree

On Tue, May 05, 2009 at 11:20:58PM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> On Wed, May 06, 2009 at 08:12:21AM +0900, KOSAKI Motohiro wrote:
> > > On Wed, May 06, 2009 at 07:26:51AM +0900, KOSAKI Motohiro wrote:
> > >> Could you please post oops log?
> > >> current mmotm (include this patch) works fine on my x86_64 box. Then,
> > >> I have no hint now ;-)
> > >
> > > Attached is a picture of the oops.
> > >
> > > Hope this helps,
> > 
> > OK, the reason is 99% mis-applied patch. I've made rebased patch.
> > 
> > in my environment
> > 
> > 2.6.29.2 + original patch:  panic
> > 2.6.29.2 + rebased patch:  works well
> > 
> > Could you please try it?
> 
> thank you for looking into this, I'll try it out tomorrow morning and
> let you know how it goes.

Yes, this works!

Thanks so much for working so quickly to resolve this.  I've added the
updated patch to the .29-stable queue.

greg k-h
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