From: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
To: Christoph Rohland <cr@sap.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: New mm and highmem reminder
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 16:02:01 -0200 (BRDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0010251601120.943-100000@duckman.distro.conectiva> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <qwwy9zcam3x.fsf@sap.com>
On 25 Oct 2000, Christoph Rohland wrote:
> Just wanted to remind you that swapping shm in highmem is still
> broken in the latest patches.
>
> If I return a RETRY in shm_swap_core instead of FAILED for
> failures of prepare_highmem_swapout it survives a little bit
> longer spewing lots of 'order 0 allocation failed' and then
> locks up after doing some swapping. Without this change it
> hardly swaps at all before lockup.
Could you test if /normal/ swapping works on highmem
machines?
If it does, it is ipc/shm.c which does the wrong thing
when no bounce buffer could be created...
regards,
Rik
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2000-10-25 18:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-10-25 17:04 Christoph Rohland
2000-10-25 17:25 ` Benjamin C.R. LaHaise
2000-10-25 18:02 ` Rik van Riel [this message]
2000-10-25 20:08 ` Christoph Rohland
2000-10-25 20:54 ` Roger Larsson
2000-10-26 20:13 ` Christoph Rohland
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