2.4.17rc2aa1

Andrea Arcangeli (andrea@suse.de)
Wed, 19 Dec 2001 16:16:10 +0100


This should fix the last loop deadlocks under VM pressure, if not please
let me know.

I didn't fixed the ia64 compilation troubles, but it should be very easy
to fix if anybody needs.

URL:

ftp://ftp.us.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/andrea/kernels/v2.4/2.4.17rc2aa1.bz2
ftp://ftp.us.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/andrea/kernels/v2.4/2.4.17rc2aa1/

Only in 2.4.17rc1aa1: 00_loop-deadlock-1

Merged in mainline.

Only in 2.4.17rc2aa1: 00_pgt-cache-leak-1

Avoid potentially leaking pagetables into the per-cpu queues.

Only in 2.4.17rc2aa1: 00_x86-fast-pte-1

Reenable the pagetable per-cpu queues on x86 that I found to be
disabled during 2.4.17pre.

Only in 2.4.17rc1aa1: 10_vm-20
Only in 2.4.17rc2aa1: 10_vm-21

Drop some leftover and rediffed.

Only in 2.4.17rc1aa1: 60_tux-2.4.16-final-D5.bz2
Only in 2.4.17rc2aa1: 60_tux-2.4.16-final-D6.bz2

Latest update from Ingo at www.redhat.com/~mingo/ .

Only in 2.4.17rc2aa1: 70_loop-deadlock-2

Previous fix cured balance_dirty(), this one will cure
the memory balancing, to avoid reentrant I/O in the loop
thread.

Andrea
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