Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 30 Nov 2000 12:15:29 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 30 Nov 2000 12:15:20 -0500 Received: from penguin.e-mind.com ([195.223.140.120]:27416 "EHLO penguin.e-mind.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 30 Nov 2000 12:00:37 -0500 Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 17:29:47 +0100 From: Andrea Arcangeli To: Rik van Riel Cc: Bob Tanner , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: PROBLEM: do_try_free_pages failed for python Message-ID: <20001130172947.E8189@athlon.random> In-Reply-To: <20001129183919.B7640@real-time.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: ; from riel@conectiva.com.br on Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 02:06:55PM -0200 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 On Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 02:06:55PM -0200, Rik van Riel wrote: > still had lots of swap free, this may mean that VM > in 2.2 still has some bugs left ... I guess it's the free_before_allocate band-aid that hurts in 2.2. That subtle race condition is fixed efficiently in VM-global with per-process freelist flushed atomically to the global freelist before allocation, so I'd suggest him to try to reproduce on VM-global-7. ftp://ftp.us.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/andrea/patches/v2.2/2.2.18pre18/VM-global-2.2.18pre18-7.bz2 Andrea - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/