linux-kernel - Re: kernel 3.0: BUG: soft lockup: find_get

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Message-ID: <CA+55aFwfkiH7NN18ve2y0PUK8UobagHfpTJ4QoZSL1KLLUMFTw@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Sun, 16 Oct 2011 20:09:12 -0700
From:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>
Cc:	Pawel Sikora <pluto@...k.net>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>,
	Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@...hat.com>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	jpiszcz@...idpixels.com, arekm@...-linux.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: kernel 3.0: BUG: soft lockup: find_get_pages+0x51/0x110

On Sun, Oct 16, 2011 at 8:02 PM, Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com> wrote:
> I've not read through and digested Andrea's reply yet, but I'd say
> this is not something we need to rush into 3.1 at the last moment,
> before it's been fully considered: the bug here is hard to hit,
> ancient, made more likely in 2.6.35 by compaction and in 2.6.38 by
> THP's reliance on compaction, but not a regression in 3.1 at all - let
> it wait until stable.

Ok, thanks. Just wanted to check.

                     Linus
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