Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759216Ab2EUUCY (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 May 2012 16:02:24 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:63080 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1759211Ab2EUUCN (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 May 2012 16:02:13 -0400 Date: Mon, 21 May 2012 16:01:18 -0400 From: Dave Jones To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Linux Kernel , linux-mm@kvack.org, KOSAKI Motohiro , Stephen Wilson , Mel Gorman , Christoph Lameter , Andrew Morton Subject: Re: 3.4-rc7 numa_policy slab poison. Message-ID: <20120521200118.GA12123@redhat.com> Mail-Followup-To: Dave Jones , Linus Torvalds , Linux Kernel , linux-mm@kvack.org, KOSAKI Motohiro , Stephen Wilson , Mel Gorman , Christoph Lameter , Andrew Morton References: <20120517213120.GA12329@redhat.com> <20120518185851.GA5728@redhat.com> <20120521154709.GA8697@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 892 Lines: 20 On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 12:39:19PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > But there's not a lot of recent stuff. The thing that jumps out is Mel > Gorman's recent commit cc9a6c8776615 ("cpuset: mm: reduce large > amounts of memory barrier related damage v3"), which has a whole new > loop with that scary mpol_cond_put() usage. And there's we had > problems with vma merging.. > > Dave, how recent is this problem? Have you already tried older kernels? I tried bisecting, but couldn't find a 'good' kernel. I Went back as far as 3.0, before that I kept running into compile failures. Newer gcc/binutils really seems to dislike 2.6.x now. Dave -- 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/