Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758698AbYABUsw (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Jan 2008 15:48:52 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753437AbYABUso (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Jan 2008 15:48:44 -0500 Received: from relay2.sgi.com ([192.48.171.30]:34954 "EHLO relay.sgi.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753336AbYABUsn (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Jan 2008 15:48:43 -0500 Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2008 12:48:43 -0800 (PST) From: Christoph Lameter X-X-Sender: clameter@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com To: Ingo Molnar cc: Dhaval Giani , Andrew Morton , Linus Torvalds , htejun@gmail.com, gregkh@suse.de, Srivatsa Vaddagiri , Balbir Singh , maneesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com, lkml , stable@kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org Subject: Re: 2.6.22-stable causes oomkiller to be invoked In-Reply-To: <20071230140116.GC21106@elte.hu> Message-ID: References: <20071214150533.aa30efd4.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20071215035200.GA22082@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <20071214220030.325f82b8.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20071215104434.GA26325@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <20071217045904.GB31386@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <20071217120720.e078194b.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20071221044508.GA11996@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <20071230140116.GC21106@elte.hu> 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 Content-Length: 670 Lines: 14 On Sun, 30 Dec 2007, Ingo Molnar wrote: > so we still dont seem to understand the failure mode well enough. This > also looks like a quite dangerous change so late in the v2.6.24 cycle. > Does it really fix the OOM? If yes, why exactly? Not exactly sure. I suspect that there is some memory corruption. See my earlier post from today. I do not see this issue on my system. So it must be particular to a certain config. -- 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/