From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 16:02:01 -0200 (BRDT) From: Rik van Riel Subject: Re: New mm and highmem reminder In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Christoph Rohland Cc: Ingo Molnar , linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: 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 -- "What you're running that piece of shit Gnome?!?!" -- Miguel de Icaza, UKUUG 2000 http://www.conectiva.com/ http://www.surriel.com/ -- 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.eu.org/Linux-MM/