Re: [BUG] 2.6.30-rc3: BUG triggered on some hugepage usages

2009-05-18 Thread Mel Gorman
On Fri, May 01, 2009 at 07:48:46AM +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: On Thu, 2009-04-30 at 21:59 +0100, Mel Gorman wrote: This patch fixes the problem by not asseting the PTE is locked for VMAs backed by huge pages. Thanks, will apply. What's the story with this patch? I'm still

Re: [BUG] 2.6.30-rc3: BUG triggered on some hugepage usages

2009-05-18 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Mon, 18 May 2009, Mel Gorman wrote: What's the story with this patch? I'm still hearing of failures with huge pages that this patch fixes but I'm no seeing it upstream. Was the patch rejected or did it just slip through the cracks? It didn't slip through the cracks, it was apparently

Re: [BUG] 2.6.30-rc3: BUG triggered on some hugepage usages

2009-04-30 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Thu, 2009-04-30 at 21:59 +0100, Mel Gorman wrote: This patch fixes the problem by not asseting the PTE is locked for VMAs backed by huge pages. Thanks, will apply. Cheers, Ben. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman m...@csn.ul.ie --- arch/powerpc/mm/pgtable.c |3 ++- 1 file changed, 2

Re: [BUG] 2.6.30-rc3: BUG triggered on some hugepage usages

2009-04-27 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Fri, 2009-04-24 at 10:51 +0100, Mel Gorman wrote: I'm seeing some tests with sysbench+postgres+large pages fail on ppc64 although a very clear pattern is not forming as to what exactly is causing it. However, the libhugetlbfs regression tests (make make func) are triggering the following

[BUG] 2.6.30-rc3: BUG triggered on some hugepage usages

2009-04-24 Thread Mel Gorman
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 08:27:57PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: Another week, another -rc. I'm seeing some tests with sysbench+postgres+large pages fail on ppc64 although a very clear pattern is not forming as to what exactly is causing it. However, the libhugetlbfs regression tests (make

Re: [BUG] 2.6.30-rc3: BUG triggered on some hugepage usages

2009-04-24 Thread Michael Ellerman
On Fri, 2009-04-24 at 10:51 +0100, Mel Gorman wrote: On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 08:27:57PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: Another week, another -rc. I'm seeing some tests with sysbench+postgres+large pages fail on ppc64 although a very clear pattern is not forming as to what exactly is