Re: [long]2.5.44-mm3 UP went into unexpected trashing
Maneesh Soni (maneesh@in.ibm.com)
Thu, 24 Oct 2002 18:16:51 +0530
On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 07:47:39AM -0400, Ed Tomlinson wrote:
> Maneesh Soni wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 08:22:07AM +0000, Andrew Morton wrote:
> >> Andrew Morton wrote:
> >> >
> >> > Hopefully the rcu fix in -mm4 will cure this.
> >>
> >> Oh. It was in -mm3 too. But something went wrong with the
> >> dcache shrinking there.
> >
> > Backing out larger-cpu-masks.patch fixes this in -mm3 so, -mm4 should not
> > give this problem. Basically callbacks are not getting processed due to
> > incorrect rcu_cpu_mask.
>
> Would this affect UP systems? Had the dentry leak on a UP box with 512m
> memory. About 400m ended up in unfreeable dentries...
Actually problem does not appear for SMP (with default NRCPUS) kernel as it getsproper rcu_cpu_mask and for UP it is not correct.
Maneesh
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