linux-kernel - Re: echo 3 > /proc/.../drop_caches goes mad with 3.1-rc6, maybe fsnotify related

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Date:	Fri, 16 Sep 2011 20:19:22 +0200
From:	Tino Keitel <tino.keitel@...ei.de>
To:	Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>
Cc:	Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@...el.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: echo 3 > /proc/.../drop_caches goes mad with 3.1-rc6, maybe
 fsnotify related

On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 14:42:05 -0700, Hugh Dickins wrote:

[...]

> Although these stacktraces don't implicate find_get_pages() at all,
> please try Shaohua's fix below (see thread: [BUG] infinite loop in
> find_get_pages()), which Linus put in his tree yesterday.

Hi,

thanks, I upgraded to git master
c455ea4f122d21c91fcf4c36c3f0c08535ba3ce8 and the problem is gone.

Regards,
Tino

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