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From: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Dhaval Giani <dhaval@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	htejun@gmail.com, gregkh@suse.de,
	Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>,
	maneesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com, lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	stable@kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.22-stable causes oomkiller to be invoked
Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2008 12:48:43 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0801021247270.21526@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071230140116.GC21106@elte.hu>

On Sun, 30 Dec 2007, Ingo Molnar wrote:

> so we still dont seem to understand the failure mode well enough. This 
> also looks like a quite dangerous change so late in the v2.6.24 cycle. 
> Does it really fix the OOM? If yes, why exactly?

Not exactly sure. I suspect that there is some memory corruption. See my 
earlier post from today. I do not see this issue on my system. So it must 
be particular to a certain config.

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      parent reply	other threads:[~2008-01-02 20:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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     [not found]                 ` <20071214095023.b5327703.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
     [not found]                   ` <20071214182802.GC2576@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2007-12-14 23:05                     ` Andrew Morton
2007-12-15  3:52                       ` Dhaval Giani
2007-12-15  6:00                         ` Andrew Morton
2007-12-15 10:44                           ` Dhaval Giani
     [not found]                             ` <20071217045904.GB31386@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
     [not found]                               ` <Pine.LNX.4.64.0712171143280.12871@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com>
     [not found]                                 ` <20071217120720.e078194b.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
     [not found]                                   ` <Pine.LNX.4.64.0712171222470.29500@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com>
2007-12-21  4:45                                     ` Dhaval Giani
2007-12-26 21:01                                       ` Christoph Lameter
     [not found]                                         ` <Pine.LNX.4.64.0712271119030.30555@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com>
2007-12-28 10:11                                           ` Dhaval Giani
2008-01-02 20:45                                             ` Christoph Lameter
2008-01-02 21:54                                               ` Christoph Lameter
2008-01-03  3:59                                                 ` Dhaval Giani
2008-01-03  4:16                                                   ` Dhaval Giani
2008-01-03 21:04                                                     ` Christoph Lameter
2008-01-07 20:04                                                       ` Christoph Lameter
2008-01-08  4:33                                                         ` Dhaval Giani
2007-12-30 14:01                                         ` Ingo Molnar
2007-12-30 19:24                                           ` Dhaval Giani
2008-01-02 20:48                                           ` Christoph Lameter [this message]

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