On 12/03/2014 02:06 AM, Dave Airlie wrote: > On 2 December 2014 at 21:59, Thomas Hellstrom <thellstrom at vmware.com> > wrote: >> Kernel side fence objects are used when unbinding resources and may thus be >> created as part of a memory reclaim operation. This might trigger recursive >> memory reclaims and result in the kernel running out of stack space. >> >> So a simple way out is to avoid accounting of these fence objects. >> In principle this is OK since while user-space can trigger the creation of >> such objects, it can't really hold on to them. However, their lifetime is >> quite long, so some form of accounting should perhaps be implemented in the >> future. >> >> Fixes kernel crashes when running, for example viewperf11 ensight-04 test 3 >> with low system memory settings. > are these 3 intended for fixes? can you send me a git pull for them > soon, so they don't miss Linus release. > > Dave. Hi.
Actually, these bugs have been quite long-standing and I feel a bit uncomfortable including the fixes this late in the release cycle. I'd rather wait to 3.19 unless you think otherwise. Thanks, Thomas
