From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262567AbULDSda (ORCPT ); Sat, 4 Dec 2004 13:33:30 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262573AbULDSda (ORCPT ); Sat, 4 Dec 2004 13:33:30 -0500 Received: from 213-239-205-147.clients.your-server.de ([213.239.205.147]:50560 "EHLO debian.tglx.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262567AbULDSd0 (ORCPT ); Sat, 4 Dec 2004 13:33:26 -0500 Subject: Re: [PATCH] oom killer (Core) From: Thomas Gleixner Reply-To: tglx@linutronix.de To: Andrea Arcangeli Cc: Voluspa , LKML In-Reply-To: <20041204164353.GE32635@dualathlon.random> References: <200412041242.iB4CgsN07246@d1o408.telia.com> <20041204164353.GE32635@dualathlon.random> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Sat, 04 Dec 2004 19:33:24 +0100 Message-Id: <1102185205.13353.309.camel@tglx.tec.linutronix.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.0.2 (2.0.2-3) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sat, 2004-12-04 at 17:43 +0100, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > On Sat, Dec 04, 2004 at 01:42:54PM +0100, Voluspa wrote: > > If try_to_free_pages is being recalled during boot them we've a problem > somewhere else, it should never happen! > > Plus it works like a charm here. > > Can you send me your .config so that I will try to send you privately a > kernel image built on my machine? (and before sending I'll try to boot > it locally ;) My .config sure is happily running. > You want my .config too ? :) I tried again from scratch and the kernel is booting without your patch. Adding your patch with the same config still does not boot. It does not depend on PREEMPT=y/n. I added some debug output and it calls __alloc_pages a couple of times. All those calls get out from the first goto got_pg as expected. I will try to add some more debug later tglx