Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932476AbWBPFOH (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Feb 2006 00:14:07 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932477AbWBPFOH (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Feb 2006 00:14:07 -0500 Received: from e5.ny.us.ibm.com ([32.97.182.145]:28106 "EHLO e5.ny.us.ibm.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932476AbWBPFOF (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Feb 2006 00:14:05 -0500 Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2006 10:48:45 +0530 From: Bharata B Rao To: Andi Kleen Cc: Christoph Lameter , Ray Bryant , discuss@x86-64.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [discuss] mmap, mbind and write to mmap'ed memory crashes 2.6.16-rc1[2] on 2 node X86_64 Message-ID: <20060216051845.GA2968@in.ibm.com> Reply-To: bharata@in.ibm.com References: <20060205163618.GB21972@in.ibm.com> <20060215054620.GA2966@in.ibm.com> <20060215103813.GD2966@in.ibm.com> <200602151221.53730.ak@suse.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200602151221.53730.ak@suse.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 796 Lines: 23 On Wed, Feb 15, 2006 at 12:21:53PM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote: > On Wednesday 15 February 2006 11:38, Bharata B Rao wrote: > > > > > Even with this, mbind still needs to be fixed. Even though it > > can't get a conforming zone in the node (MPOL_BIND case), > > It should just use lower zones then (e.g. if no ZONE_NORMAL > use ZONE_DMA32). yes that needs to be fixed. > > How about the appended patch? Does it fix the problem for you? > Yes, this fixes the problem. The kernel and the application don't crash now with this patch. Regards, Bharata. - 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/