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On Sun, 20 Apr 2008, Andrew Morton wrote: > > These can be found at > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.25/2.6.25-mm1 A couple of comments on memcgroup patches in your high-priority initial section (I've not studied further yet) > Merge, and backport to 2.6.25.x > disable-the-memory-controller-by-default-v3.patch > disable-the-memory-controller-by-default-v3-fix.patch If those are to go in, then the sooner the better, yes. But though I argued for cgroup_disable=memory (or some such), I think myself that taking it even further now (requiring an additional cgroup_enable=memory at boottime to get the memcg stuff you chose with CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR=y at build time) is confusing overkill, just messing around. Others think differently. A compromise would be to improve the helptext for CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR (some of it is presently nonsense, isn't it? Certainly there's a significant overhead, but it's the 32-bit struct page not the 64-bit which then suffers from crossing cacheline boundaries). Not much point in mentioning cgroup_disable=memory if those patches go in, but needs to say cgroup_enable=memory bootoption also needed. > memcgroup-check-and-initialize-page-cgroup-in-memmap_init_zone.patch No, it was a good find from Shi, but you were right to think the patch fishy, and Kame put in lots of work (thank you!) to identify the actual culprit: he and Mel are discussing what the actual fix should be; and we might want to choose a different fix for stable than for 2.6.26. I think you should drop that memmap_init_zone patch: the cgroup pointer is not the only field we assume is zeroed, both flags and mapping can cause trouble if they were not originally zeroed. Re-zero the whole struct page? No, far better to fix the root of the corruption, that Kame and Mel are working on. Hugh | ||||||||||||
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