From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail6.bemta8.messagelabs.com (mail6.bemta8.messagelabs.com [216.82.243.55]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D49FC6B002C for ; Sun, 16 Oct 2011 23:09:33 -0400 (EDT) Received: by wwf5 with SMTP id 5so846859wwf.26 for ; Sun, 16 Oct 2011 20:09:32 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <201110122012.33767.pluto@agmk.net> From: Linus Torvalds Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2011 20:09:12 -0700 Message-ID: Subject: Re: kernel 3.0: BUG: soft lockup: find_get_pages+0x51/0x110 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Hugh Dickins Cc: Pawel Sikora , Andrew Morton , Mel Gorman , Andrea Arcangeli , linux-mm@kvack.org, jpiszcz@lucidpixels.com, arekm@pld-linux.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, Oct 16, 2011 at 8:02 PM, Hugh Dickins wrote: > I've not read through and digested Andrea's reply yet, but I'd say > this is not something we need to rush into 3.1 at the last moment, > before it's been fully considered: the bug here is hard to hit, > ancient, made more likely in 2.6.35 by compaction and in 2.6.38 by > THP's reliance on compaction, but not a regression in 3.1 at all - let > it wait until stable. Ok, thanks. Just wanted to check. Linus -- 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/ . Fight unfair telecom internet charges in Canada: sign http://stopthemeter.ca/ Don't email: email@kvack.org