Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 3 Sep 2000 17:47:01 -0300 (BRST) | From | Rik van Riel <> |
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On Sun, 3 Sep 2000, Alan Cox wrote:
> > Yes, it kicks butt and it finally (just about) removes the final > > Linux kernel showstopper for recent kernels. ;-) > > Things like random memory corruption from dropping dirty bits, > and some of the others are far more serious showstoppers alas
Indeed, there are 4 major issues left in the VM area:
1) system hangs under load with 0 lowmem free (but still some high memory free)
[not much details on this one yet]
2) dirty bits can get lost, try_to_swap_out() and other places have a race with the hardware
[from mm/vmscan.c, line 60 has a race with the /hardware/] 55 if (pte_young(pte)) { 56 /* 57 * Transfer the "accessed" bit from the page 58 * tables to the global page map. 59 */ 60 set_pte(page_table, pte_mkold(pte)); 61 SetPageReferenced(page); 62 goto out_failed; 63 }
3) it appears something can corrupt page->count or delete a page from the cache while the page is locked
[tripped up by my VM patch?]
4) the innd data corruption bug
[anybody?]
regards,
Rik -- "What you're running that piece of shit Gnome?!?!" -- Miguel de Icaza, UKUUG 2000
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