Re: [PATCH 1/3] mm: use long type for page counts in mm_populate()and get_user_pages()

From: Sasha Levin
Date: Wed Feb 06 2013 - 20:18:16 EST


On 02/06/2013 08:10 PM, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Wed, 06 Feb 2013 19:39:11 -0500
> Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> We're now hitting the VM_BUG_ON() which was added in the last hunk of the
>> patch:
>
> hm, why was that added.
>
> Michel, I seem to have confused myself over this series. I saw a
> report this morning which led me to drop
> mm-accelerate-munlock-treatment-of-thp-pages.patch but now I can't find
> that report and I'm wondering if I should have dropped
> mm-accelerate-mm_populate-treatment-of-thp-pages.patch instead.
>
> Given that and Sasha's new report I think I'll drop
>
> mm-use-long-type-for-page-counts-in-mm_populate-and-get_user_pages.patch
> mm-use-long-type-for-page-counts-in-mm_populate-and-get_user_pages-fix.patch
> mm-use-long-type-for-page-counts-in-mm_populate-and-get_user_pages-fix-fix.patch
> mm-accelerate-mm_populate-treatment-of-thp-pages.patch
> mm-accelerate-munlock-treatment-of-thp-pages.patch
>
> and let's start again?

I've sent a report regarding mm-accelerate-munlock-treatment-of-thp-pages.patch
couple of hours ago (https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/2/6/699). Reverting that patch
fixed the issue reported, so I think you've dropped the right one.


Thanks,
Sasha
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