From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758982Ab3BTRu6 (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Feb 2013 12:50:58 -0500 Received: from shards.monkeyblade.net ([149.20.54.216]:48020 "EHLO shards.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758898Ab3BTRu4 (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Feb 2013 12:50:56 -0500 Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2013 12:50:48 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <20130220.125048.1965504750915247194.davem@davemloft.net> To: mroos@linux.ee Cc: rientjes@google.com, linux-mm@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, sparclinux@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: THP bug and crash on sparc64 3.8 From: David Miller In-Reply-To: References: <20130219.144608.1425049879680985441.davem@davemloft.net> <20130220.014137.1184382041985855584.davem@davemloft.net> X-Mailer: Mew version 6.5 on Emacs 24.1 / Mule 6.0 (HANACHIRUSATO) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.7 (shards.monkeyblade.net [0.0.0.0]); Wed, 20 Feb 2013 09:50:59 -0800 (PST) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Meelis Roos 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.