Re: [BUG] infinite loop in find_get_pages()

[Eric Dumazet]

Le jeudi 15 septembre 2011 Ã 08:45 +0800, Shaohua Li a Ãcrit :

> here is my patch if you want to close the issue at hand.
> 
> Subject: mm: account skipped entries to avoid looping in find_get_pages
> 
> The found entries by find_get_pages() could be all swap entries. In
> this case we skip the entries, but make sure the skipped entries are
> accounted, so we don't keep looping.
> Using nr_found > nr_skip to simplify code as suggested by Eric.
> 
> Reported-and-tested-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@xxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@xxxxxxxxx>
> 

Yep, I guess Hugh can refine it later.

I'm pulling latest Linus tree (including this patch) and redo a stress
session, including transparent hugepage games.

Thanks !


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