Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 21 Jan 2003 13:21:14 +0000 (GMT) | From | Hugh Dickins <> | Subject | Re: Linux 2.4.21-pre3-ac4 [PATCH] |
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On Tue, 21 Jan 2003, Paul Gortmaker wrote: > > Your compiler must really like you, seeing as it would barf on any > significant I/O here. Somewhere along the line, somebody removed > the INIT_LIST_HEAD for current->local_pages from fork.c and didn't > put it back somewhere else (like INIT_TASK or whatever was in mind.)
Yes, I posted the same patch a couple of days ago. We've now had several confirmations (for which thanks) that it fixes __free_pages_ok oops many were seeing in 2.4.21-pre3-ac. (But the problem was in allocating memory when low, rather than in significant I/O.)
Hugh
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