From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2003 22:35:45 +0200 From: Bongani Hlope Subject: Re: 2.6.0-test6-mm2 Message-Id: <20031002223545.55611ef6.bonganilinux@mweb.co.za> In-Reply-To: <20031002022341.797361bc.akpm@osdl.org> References: <20031002022341.797361bc.akpm@osdl.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg="pgp-sha1"; boundary="Multipart_Thu__2_Oct_2003_22_35_45_+0200_=.YJ'OLca7lsu)9l" Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Andrew Morton Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: --Multipart_Thu__2_Oct_2003_22_35_45_+0200_=.YJ'OLca7lsu)9l Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Thu, 02 Oct 2003 02:23:41 -0700 Andrew Morton wrote: > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.0-test6/2.6.0-test6-mm2/ > > . A large series of VFS patches from Al Viro which replace usage of > file->f_dentry->d_inode->i_mapping with the new file->f_mapping. > > This is mainly so we can get disk hot removal right. > > . More work on the O_DIRECT-vs-buffered data coherency problem. It's > still not quite there. > -mm1 had a lot of events/0 zombies, and vanilla 2.6.0-test6 does not. I will test -mm2 and let you know how it goes. Alt-SysRq shows this: events/0 Z 77361907 1834 3 1836 1831 (L-TLB) c46abfc4 00000046 cf901940 77361907 00000058 c5dfa080 00000011 77361907 00000058 cf901940 cf901960 00011d32 77361907 00000058 cffeeaf8 00000000 c5dfa080 00000000 c0124b60 c5dfa080 00000000 00000000 00000000 c01322f0 Call Trace: [do_exit+560/1040] do_exit+0x230/0x410 [] do_exit+0x230/0x410 [wait_for_helper+0/224] wait_for_helper+0x0/0xe0 [] wait_for_helper+0x0/0xe0 [kernel_thread_helper+11/12] kernel_thread_helper+0xb/0xc [] kernel_thread_helper+0xb/0xc events/0 Z 77F25CBA 1836 3 2189 1834 (L-TLB) c46bffc4 00000046 cf901940 77f25cba 00000058 c4691940 00000011 77f25cba 00000058 cf901940 cf901960 000108dc 77f25cba 00000058 cffeeaf8 00000000 c4691940 00000000 c0124b60 c4691940 00000000 00000000 00000000 c01322f0 Call Trace: [do_exit+560/1040] do_exit+0x230/0x410 [] do_exit+0x230/0x410 [wait_for_helper+0/224] wait_for_helper+0x0/0xe0 [] wait_for_helper+0x0/0xe0 [kernel_thread_helper+11/12] kernel_thread_helper+0xb/0xc [] kernel_thread_helper+0xb/0xc events/0 Z CF386CA1 2189 3 2191 1836 (L-TLB) c172ffc4 00000046 c5dfa6b0 cf386ca1 000006f9 c172cce0 00000011 cf386ca1 000006f9 c5dfa6b0 c5dfa6d0 0001402b cf386ca1 000006f9 cffeeaf8 00000000 c172cce0 00000000 c0124b60 c172cce0 00000000 00000000 00000000 c01322f0 Call Trace: [do_exit+560/1040] do_exit+0x230/0x410 [] do_exit+0x230/0x410 [wait_for_helper+0/224] wait_for_helper+0x0/0xe0 [] wait_for_helper+0x0/0xe0 [kernel_thread_helper+11/12] kernel_thread_helper+0xb/0xc [] kernel_thread_helper+0xb/0xc --Multipart_Thu__2_Oct_2003_22_35_45_+0200_=.YJ'OLca7lsu)9l Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/fIwn+pvEqv8+FEMRAvCiAJ0V0D3W4leI/ZrYz4aVDMc0EkJROwCghVAN VNoCD90kUHoBN/HWXIoW7/o= =NMG7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Multipart_Thu__2_Oct_2003_22_35_45_+0200_=.YJ'OLca7lsu)9l-- -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: aart@kvack.org