Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755892AbYGKSLR (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Jul 2008 14:11:17 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753557AbYGKSLH (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Jul 2008 14:11:07 -0400 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:41329 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753441AbYGKSLG (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Jul 2008 14:11:06 -0400 Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2008 11:10:25 -0700 (PDT) From: Linus Torvalds To: Ingo Molnar cc: Roland McGrath , Thomas Gleixner , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Elias Oltmanns , =?ISO-8859-15?Q?T=F6r=F6k_Edwin?= , Arjan van de Ven Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86_64: fix delayed signals In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <20080710215039.2A143154218@magilla.localdomain> <20080711054605.GA17851@elte.hu> User-Agent: Alpine 1.10 (LFD 962 2008-03-14) 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: 749 Lines: 19 On Fri, 11 Jul 2008, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > But it would be really good to have the thing bisected regardless of what > it is. Btw, did any of the impacted people test -rc9? Edwin's report is about -rc2 and -rc8, and one of the things we fixed since -rc8 is that incorrect and unintentional nr_zones zeroing that effectively disabled kswapd - and made everybody do synchronous memory freeing when they wanted to allocate more memory.. That can play havoc with any interactive stuff. Linus -- 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/