linux-kernel - Re: THP bug and crash on sparc64 3.8

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Message-Id: <20130220.125048.1965504750915247194.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Wed, 20 Feb 2013 12:50:48 -0500 (EST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	mroos@...ux.ee
Cc:	rientjes@...gle.com, linux-mm@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, sparclinux@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: THP bug and crash on sparc64 3.8

From: Meelis Roos <mroos@...ux.ee>
Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2013 15:35:52 +0200 (EET)

>> Ok I've written an alternative version of the fix that I've been busy
>> testing all evening.
>> 
>> I think it's much better and it's about to be posted as a series of 3
>> patches.
> 
> Works much better. aptitude worked fine, as did 5 times
> cp -a linux test; rm -r linux
> 
> However, "git gc" in a copy of the repository hung the machine hard, 
> nothing in the logs.
> 
> 3.8.0 with THP disabled can run both cp;rm and git gc several 
> times without a problem.

Thanks for testing, I'll try to reproduce.
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