Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752441AbYLYK6r (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Dec 2008 05:58:47 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751816AbYLYK6h (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Dec 2008 05:58:37 -0500 Received: from minas.ics.muni.cz ([147.251.4.40]:36045 "EHLO minas.ics.muni.cz" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751817AbYLYK6f (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Dec 2008 05:58:35 -0500 Date: Thu, 25 Dec 2008 11:58:50 +0100 From: Lukas Hejtmanek To: Wu Fengguang Cc: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , Bill Davidsen Subject: Re: 2.6.28-rc8 big regression in VM Message-ID: <20081225105850.GF4414@ics.muni.cz> References: <20081213095815.GA7143@ics.muni.cz> <20081215011645.GA9707@localhost> <20081215094409.GA4422@ics.muni.cz> <20081216045938.GA1000@localhost> <20081216195219.GA4480@ics.muni.cz> <20081217122726.GA21356@localhost> <20081217123307.GF4480@ics.muni.cz> <20081217124421.GA22317@localhost> <20081217124904.GG4480@ics.muni.cz> <20081225105001.GC15733@localhost> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-2 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <20081225105001.GC15733@localhost> X-echelon: NSA, CIA, CI5, MI5, FBI, KGB, BIS, Plutonium, Bin Laden, bomb User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-Muni-Spam-TestIP: 85.132.163.129 X-Muni-Envelope-From: xhejtman@anubis.ics.muni.cz X-Muni-Virus-Test: Clean X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH authentication, not delayed by milter-greylist-3.0 (minas.ics.muni.cz [147.251.4.35]); Thu, 25 Dec 2008 11:58:27 +0100 (CET) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 740 Lines: 21 On Thu, Dec 25, 2008 at 06:50:01PM +0800, Wu Fengguang wrote: > Did the undroppable memory keep growing? unfotunatley not any more. > If not, we could take it as a feature instead of bug: the memory > mapped pages are being protected from being freed. It's not a > regression either: the feature was there before 2.6.27. > > But sure we change that if it's not the desirable behavior. so I think the issue can be closed for now. I will reopen if I discover something. -- Luk?? Hejtm?nek -- 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/