From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Pavel Machek <pavel@denx.de>
Cc: Phil Turmel <philip@turmel.org>,
paul.szabo@sydney.edu.au, ben@decadent.org.uk,
dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: PAE problems was [RFC] Reproducible OOM with just a few sleeps
Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2013 08:57:21 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <510BF3F1.2050605@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130201102545.GA3053@amd.pavel.ucw.cz>
On 02/01/2013 02:25 AM, Pavel Machek wrote:
>
> On Fri 2013-02-01 11:20:44, Pavel Machek wrote:
>> On Thu 2013-01-31 23:38:27, Phil Turmel wrote:
>>> On 01/31/2013 10:13 PM, paul.szabo@sydney.edu.au wrote:
>>>> [trim /] Does not that prove that PAE is broken?
>>>
>>> Please, Paul, take *yes* for an answer. It is broken. You've received
>>> multiple dissertations on why it is going to stay that way. Unless you
>>> fix it yourself, and everyone seems to be politely wishing you the best
>>> of luck with that.
>>
>> It is not Paul's job to fix PAE. It is job of whoever broke it to do
>> so.
>>
>> If it is broken with 2GB of RAM, it is clearly not the known "lowmem
>> starvation" issue, it is something else... and probably worth
>> debugging.
>>
>> So, Paul, if you have time and interest... Try to find some old kernel
>> version where sleep test works with PAE. Hopefully there is one. Then
>> do bisection... author of the patch should then fix it. (And if not,
>> at least you have patch you can revert.)
>>
>> rjw is worth cc-ing at that point.
>
> Ouch, and... IIRC (hpa should know for sure), PAE is neccessary for
> R^X support on x86, thus getting more common, not less. If it does not
> work, that's bad news.
>
> Actually, if PAE is known broken, it should probably get marked as
> such in Kconfig. That's sure to get some discussion started...
> Pavel
>
OK, so by the time this thread gets to me there is of course no
information in it.
The vast majority of all 32-bit kernels compiled these days are PAE, so
it would seem rather odd if PAE was totally broken.
-hpa
--
H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf.
--
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: <a href=mailto:"dont@kvack.org"> email@kvack.org </a>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-02-01 16:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-01-12 3:31 paul.szabo
2013-01-14 15:00 ` Dave Hansen
2013-01-14 20:36 ` paul.szabo
2013-01-15 0:34 ` Bug#695182: " Ben Hutchings
2013-01-15 0:56 ` Dave Hansen
2013-01-15 2:16 ` paul.szabo
2013-01-30 12:51 ` Pavel Machek
2013-01-30 15:32 ` Dave Hansen
2013-01-30 19:40 ` paul.szabo
2013-01-31 5:15 ` Bug#695182: " Ben Hutchings
2013-01-31 9:07 ` paul.szabo
2013-01-31 13:38 ` Ben Hutchings
2013-01-31 23:06 ` paul.szabo
2013-02-01 1:07 ` Ben Hutchings
2013-02-01 2:12 ` paul.szabo
2013-02-01 2:57 ` Ben Hutchings
2013-02-01 3:13 ` paul.szabo
2013-02-01 4:38 ` Phil Turmel
2013-02-01 10:20 ` Pavel Machek
2013-02-01 10:25 ` PAE problems was " Pavel Machek
2013-02-01 16:57 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2013-02-01 17:45 ` Ben Hutchings
2013-02-07 0:28 ` Dave Hansen
2013-02-10 19:09 ` Pavel Machek
2013-02-17 9:10 ` Simon Jeons
2013-02-24 22:10 ` paul.szabo
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=510BF3F1.2050605@zytor.com \
--to=hpa@zytor.com \
--cc=ben@decadent.org.uk \
--cc=dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com \
--cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=linux-mm@kvack.org \
--cc=paul.szabo@sydney.edu.au \
--cc=pavel@denx.de \
--cc=philip@turmel.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox