* Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The only (lame) thing I can say for now is that drop_caches is a
> debug-only, root-only thing :(
ok, that's fair enough.
Ingo
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> On Fri, 23 Feb 2007 07:35:38 +0100 Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> i just got the lockdep warning below when doing:
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> echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches
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> is this a known quirk in the drop_caches code?
It is - we're taking inode_lock at just the wrong level there and I don't
know
On Fri, Feb 23, 2007 at 07:35:38AM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
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> Andrew,
>
> i just got the lockdep warning below when doing:
>
> echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches
>
> is this a known quirk in the drop_caches code?
>
This is known, yes: http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/12/4/19
Regards,
Frederik
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Andrew,
i just got the lockdep warning below when doing:
echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches
is this a known quirk in the drop_caches code?
Ingo
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