linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.22-stable causes oomkiller to be invoked

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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0801021247270.21526@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com>
Date:	Wed, 2 Jan 2008 12:48:43 -0800 (PST)
From:	Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
cc:	Dhaval Giani <dhaval@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	htejun@...il.com, gregkh@...e.de,
	Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Balbir Singh <balbir@...ibm.com>, maneesh@...ux.vnet.ibm.com,
	lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, stable@...nel.org,
	linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.22-stable causes oomkiller to be invoked

On Sun, 30 Dec 2007, Ingo Molnar wrote:

> so we still dont seem to understand the failure mode well enough. This 
> also looks like a quite dangerous change so late in the v2.6.24 cycle. 
> Does it really fix the OOM? If yes, why exactly?

Not exactly sure. I suspect that there is some memory corruption. See my 
earlier post from today. I do not see this issue on my system. So it must 
be particular to a certain config.
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