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Message-ID: <20110222161513.GC13092@random.random>
Date:	Tue, 22 Feb 2011 17:15:13 +0100
From:	Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@...hat.com>
To:	Clemens Ladisch <cladisch@...glemail.com>
Cc:	Arthur Marsh <arthur.marsh@...ernode.on.net>,
	alsa-user@...ts.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Mel Gorman <mel@....ul.ie>
Subject: Re: [Alsa-user] new source of MIDI playback slow-down identified -
 5a03b051ed87e72b959f32a86054e1142ac4cf55 thp: use compaction in kswapd for
 GFP_ATOMIC order > 0

On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 02:40:47PM +0100, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
>  	spin_lock_irq(&zone->lru_lock);
>  	for (; low_pfn < end_pfn; low_pfn++) {
>  		struct page *page;
> +
> +		cond_resched();
> +

my bad, see the above spin_lock_irq oops...

I attached two replacement patches to apply in order (both of them
should be applied at the same time on top of git upstream, and they
shouldn't lockup this time).

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