linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.22-rc1-mm1 huge pages VM freeze (maybe?)

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Date:	Wed, 01 Aug 2007 08:54:45 -0700
From:	Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@...cle.com>
To:	Nish Aravamudan <nish.aravamudan@...il.com>
CC:	Zan Lynx <zlynx@....org>,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: 2.6.22-rc1-mm1 huge pages VM freeze (maybe?)

Nish Aravamudan wrote:
> On 7/31/07, Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@...cle.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, 31 Jul 2007 15:44:21 -0600 Zan Lynx wrote:
>>
>>> I was playing with huge pages and libhugetlbfs.  Small programs like
>>> "ls" work fine.  I tried running Evolution through libhugetlbfs and the
>>> system slowly stops running.  One interesting thing is the "ps" command,
>>> it gets stuck like this:
>> Do you mean 2.6.22-rc1-mm1 or 2.6.23-rc1-mm1?
>>
>> There was a hugepage problem fixed very recently, in 2.6.23-rc1 IIRC.
> 
> Actually fixed just after 2.6.23-rc1:
> 
> git describe 5ab3ee7b1cd5c91eb2272764f9d7d1fe4749681e
> v2.6.23-rc1-14-g5ab3ee7

Looks to me like Andrew included Ken's patch in his rc1-mm1 anyway,
so that shouldn't be the issue.  Or did I not read mm/hugetlb.c correctly?

-- 
~Randy
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