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From: Ed Tomlinson <tomlins@cam.org>
Subject: Re: [long]2.5.44-mm3 UP went into unexpected trashing
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Maneesh Soni wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 08:22:07AM +0000, Andrew Morton wrote:
>> Andrew Morton wrote:
>> > 
>> > Hopefully the rcu fix in -mm4 will cure this.
>> 
>> Oh.  It was in -mm3 too.  But something went wrong with the
>> dcache shrinking there.
> 
> Backing out larger-cpu-masks.patch fixes this in -mm3 so, -mm4 should not
> give this problem. Basically callbacks are not getting processed due to
> incorrect rcu_cpu_mask.

Would this affect UP systems?  Had the dentry leak on a UP box with 512m 
memory.  About 400m ended up in unfreeable dentries...

Ed Tomlinson
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