Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 19 Dec 2001 10:16:24 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 19 Dec 2001 10:16:05 -0500 Received: from penguin.e-mind.com ([195.223.140.120]:19049 "EHLO penguin.e-mind.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 19 Dec 2001 10:16:01 -0500 Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2001 16:16:10 +0100 From: Andrea Arcangeli To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: 2.4.17rc2aa1 Message-ID: <20011219161610.I1395@athlon.random> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.12i 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 This should fix the last loop deadlocks under VM pressure, if not please let me know. I didn't fixed the ia64 compilation troubles, but it should be very easy to fix if anybody needs. URL: ftp://ftp.us.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/andrea/kernels/v2.4/2.4.17rc2aa1.bz2 ftp://ftp.us.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/andrea/kernels/v2.4/2.4.17rc2aa1/ Only in 2.4.17rc1aa1: 00_loop-deadlock-1 Merged in mainline. Only in 2.4.17rc2aa1: 00_pgt-cache-leak-1 Avoid potentially leaking pagetables into the per-cpu queues. Only in 2.4.17rc2aa1: 00_x86-fast-pte-1 Reenable the pagetable per-cpu queues on x86 that I found to be disabled during 2.4.17pre. Only in 2.4.17rc1aa1: 10_vm-20 Only in 2.4.17rc2aa1: 10_vm-21 Drop some leftover and rediffed. Only in 2.4.17rc1aa1: 60_tux-2.4.16-final-D5.bz2 Only in 2.4.17rc2aa1: 60_tux-2.4.16-final-D6.bz2 Latest update from Ingo at www.redhat.com/~mingo/ . Only in 2.4.17rc2aa1: 70_loop-deadlock-2 Previous fix cured balance_dirty(), this one will cure the memory balancing, to avoid reentrant I/O in the loop thread. 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/