From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S935526Ab3BTNf6 (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Feb 2013 08:35:58 -0500 Received: from smtp1.it.da.ut.ee ([193.40.5.66]:45602 "EHLO smtp2.it.da.ut.ee" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S935090Ab3BTNf4 (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Feb 2013 08:35:56 -0500 Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2013 15:35:52 +0200 (EET) From: Meelis Roos To: David Miller cc: rientjes@google.com, linux-mm@vger.kernel.org, Linux Kernel list , sparclinux@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: THP bug and crash on sparc64 3.8 In-Reply-To: <20130220.014137.1184382041985855584.davem@davemloft.net> Message-ID: References: <20130219.143320.1413047009797673492.davem@davemloft.net> <20130219.144608.1425049879680985441.davem@davemloft.net> <20130220.014137.1184382041985855584.davem@davemloft.net> User-Agent: Alpine 1.00 (SOC 882 2007-12-20) 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 > 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. -- Meelis Roos (mroos@linux.ee)