Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 1 Mar 2001 09:33:51 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 1 Mar 2001 09:33:40 -0500 Received: from penguin.e-mind.com ([195.223.140.120]:12352 "EHLO penguin.e-mind.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 1 Mar 2001 09:33:25 -0500 Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2001 15:35:12 +0100 From: Andrea Arcangeli To: Matti Aarnio Cc: Ivan Stepnikov , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Kernel is unstable Message-ID: <20010301153512.F32484@athlon.random> In-Reply-To: <001701c0a230$40e12240$0e04a8c0@iv> <20010301122753.S15688@mea-ext.zmailer.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20010301122753.S15688@mea-ext.zmailer.org>; from matti.aarnio@zmailer.org on Thu, Mar 01, 2001 at 12:27:53PM +0200 X-GnuPG-Key-URL: http://e-mind.com/~andrea/aa.gnupg.asc X-PGP-Key-URL: http://e-mind.com/~andrea/aa.asc Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Mar 01, 2001 at 12:27:53PM +0200, Matti Aarnio wrote: > With malloc(1M): > > ... > 44089000-4418a000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 > 4418a000-4428b000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 > 4428b000-4438c000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 > 4438c000-4448d000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 > 4448d000-4458e000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 > 4458e000-4468f000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 > 4468f000-44790000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 > 44790000-44891000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 This is actually another bug completly orthogonal to the VM deadlock with the empty ZONE_NORMAL. >From the above it's pretty obvious the clever vma merging is broken in 2.4. Andrea - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/