On Tue, 19 Jul 2011 07:48:11 +0900 Minchan Kim <minchan....@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks for the test, Chris.
> Andrew.
> We should push this into -stable.
That's
commit d179e84ba5da1d0024087d1759a2938817a00f3f
Author: Andrea Arcangeli <aarca...@redhat.com>
AuthorDate: Wed Jun 15 15:08:51 2011 -0700
Commit: Linus Torvalds <torva...@linux-foundation.org>
CommitDate: Wed Jun 15 20:04:02 2011 -0700
mm: vmscan: do not use page_count without a page pin
>
> On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 10:48 AM, Chris Pearson
> <pearson.christophe...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > That definately fixed it. __MTBF was about 20 days on those systems, since
> > that patch we've had 200 server days with no problems.
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > On Tue, 12 Jul 2011, Minchan Kim wrote:
> >
> >>Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2011 09:16:09 +0900
> >>From: Minchan Kim <minchan....@gmail.com>
> >>To: Chris Pearson <pearson.christophe...@gmail.com>
> >>Cc: linux...@kvack.org, Andrea Arcangeli <aarca...@redhat.com>,
> >> __ __Andrew Morton <a...@linux-foundation.org>, stable <sta...@kernel.org>
> >>Subject: Re: NULL poniter dereference in isolate_lru_pages 2.6.39.1
> >>
> >>On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 5:52 AM, Chris Pearson
> >><pearson.christophe...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>> We applied the patch to many servers. __No problems so far.
> >>>
> >>> The .config is attached.
> >>
> >>Thanks. I verified. The point where isolate_lru_pages + 0x225 is
> >>page_count exactly. So Andrea patch solves this problem apparently.
> >>Couldn't we throw this patch to stable tree?
> >>
> >>https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/857442/
> >>
> >>>
> >>> What's the config option to get that debugging info in the future?
> >>
> >>CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO helps you. :)
> >>
> >>--
> >>Kind regards,
> >>Minchan Kim
> >>
> >
>
>
>
> --
> Kind regards,
> Minchan Kim
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