From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752456AbZERR1c (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 May 2009 13:27:32 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751204AbZERR1Z (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 May 2009 13:27:25 -0400 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:59343 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750955AbZERR1Y (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 May 2009 13:27:24 -0400 Date: Mon, 18 May 2009 10:26:40 -0700 (PDT) From: Linus Torvalds X-X-Sender: torvalds@localhost.localdomain To: Mel Gorman cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt , Michael Ellerman , linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, Linux Kernel Mailing List , ebmunson@us.ibm.com Subject: Re: [BUG] 2.6.30-rc3: BUG triggered on some hugepage usages In-Reply-To: <20090518171322.GB13093@csn.ul.ie> Message-ID: References: <20090424095116.GB14283@csn.ul.ie> <1240586690.12551.31.camel@localhost> <20090430205919.GA24279@csn.ul.ie> <1241128126.29501.48.camel@pasglop> <20090518171322.GB13093@csn.ul.ie> User-Agent: Alpine 2.01 (LFD 1184 2008-12-16) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 18 May 2009, Mel Gorman wrote: > > What's the story with this patch? I'm still hearing of failures with huge pages > that this patch fixes but I'm no seeing it upstream. Was the patch > rejected or did it just slip through the cracks? It didn't slip through the cracks, it was apparently just delayed. It's part of the merge requests I've gotten today (well, strictly speaking it seems to have hit my inbox just before midnight yesterday, but that's because those silly aussies stand upside down and sleep at odd hours). In fact, I just merged it, I haven't even had time to push that out. Linus